Long after his death, Hans Jonathan is something of a celebrity in Iceland, where he is thought to have been the first black person. But in Denmark, his extraordinary story is widely ignored. By ...

(AP) Biotech pioneer Amgen Inc., in a bid for a big edge in using people’s genetic information to find better ways to attack diseases, is buying human genetics research and analytics leader deCODE ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Iceland's Decode Genetics Inc , a pioneer in genetic research, has filed for bankruptcy protection, weighed down by debts after 13 years of failing to make a profit.

Already deCODE has published 6 papers in Nature and the New England Journal of Medicine using the data-collecting strategy, which involves estimating genotypes of relatives of 120,000 volunteers who ...