Stefansson and Harper both say that their intent is to leave DeCode as it is, and to continue to allow it to publish its discoveries in scientific journals while giving Amgen access to the people doing the research to help speed its drug discovery efforts.
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In contrast, a genomics firm like Iceland's DeCode Genetics (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people ) might apply for 350 gene patents--as DeCode did today--that might make money someday, but still post a loss.
DeCode's Stefansson says he hopes the deal will help the company market its services to other drug and biotech companies in the future, by establishing DeCode's software as the standard method for analyzing gene data.
As CEO and founder of GNS Healthcare, I oversee a team of mathematicians, biologists, and data scientists as they crunch and decode healthcare data to unlock the mysteries of what treatment will work for specific patients.
DeCODE says it will update the site continually as new risk genes are discovered.
Global mindset can be defined as the ability to perceive and decode behaviors in multiple cultural contexts.
Stefansson left his spot as a professor at Harvard Medical School to found DeCode because he thought his native Iceland provided the perfect spot for discovering genes in families with lineages that have been tracked for generations.
If you're willing to invest in foreign stocks, Swiss drug giant Roche (otc: RHHBY - news - people) is active in the biotech sector as a partner with several genomic companies, including DeCode (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people) and Millennium Pharmaceuticals.
It was used to decode a lock with four different rows of pin tumblers and is as effective as anything available today.
"Obesity and thinness are two sides of the same coin, and with our partners at Merck we are working to identify the best targets for therapeutic intervention within this pathway, as well as compounds that are effective against these targets, " DeCode Chief Executive Kari Stefansson said in the statement.
As so often happens with medical terms, its best if we decode that last paragraph backwards.
Further down the road, the MicroConsole will apparently even have 3D gaming support, as the company's figured out a way to encode and decode a pair of discrete video streams with this very hardware.
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As sequencing technology advances and becomes more affordable, researchers expect someday to readily decode twins' full genomes to further identify genetic factors of diseases.
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