Companies that make systems to transport and decode data along metropolitan networks up to 100 kilometers long.
"We're approaching obesity from many points of view, " says Kari Stefansson , chief executive of DeCode.
In May 2006 Illumina signed a deal to help DeCode Genetics find genes for common diseases.
DeCode agreed to buy 100, 000 DNA chips, more than any customer had ever bought.
DeCode is now screening for compounds to target the gene and a key receptor.
As so often happens with medical terms, its best if we decode that last paragraph backwards.
DeCode needs more money by early 2009 to continue operations and is exploring asset sales.
"The things that are included will increase exponentially over time, " says deCODE founder KariStefanssonKari Stefansson.
James Shreeve's new book, which examines the 17-year struggle to decode mankind's genetic blueprint, reveals why.
Yet even that greatly underestimates how much and how easily marketers can decode us.
DeCODE says it will update the site continually as new risk genes are discovered.
Nicolai and I discussed how he used many common materials to decode and open locks.
The DeCode finding provides some of the most direct evidence yet that this is the case.
Only specialists could decode the then-standard Gothic script style, because only specialists needed to do so.
But, in a classic biotechnology story, DeCode had trouble turning its science into a business.
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DeCode has used the money to assemble a genealogy database of 600, 000 Icelanders dating back to the year 900.
Since then DeCode has used them to discover genes involved in heart disease, diabetes and breast cancer.
Stefansson ultimately hopes to sell DeCode's gene-mining software to hospitals so that they can analyze their patients.
Ultimately, Stefansson hopes to sell DeCode's gene-mining software to hospitals so they can analyze their own patients.
Global mindset can be defined as the ability to perceive and decode behaviors in multiple cultural contexts.
Merck's recent deal with DeCode Genetics is a bet that there are genes that make people fat.
DeCode's effort focuses on an obscure gene that makes a substance called 5-lipoxygenase activating protein, or Flap.
The DeCode finding is bolstered by independent work by Lusis and his colleagues at UCLA and USC.
"The things that are included will increase exponentially over time, " says deCODE founder Kari Stefansson .
They also support audio codec 2.5 (decode only) and plug-ins for Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Or try to decode the 14-page secret message Singh offers up in the appendix of his book.
If the DVD player decides the disc is secure, it will decode it and play the movie.
Using automated sequencing machines from Perkin-Elmer, DeCode sequenced the DNA from the healthy and the sick to locate the gene.
In its hunt for disease genes, Celera is racing against Perlegen Sciences, Decode Genetics and numerous academic labs.
In July, culminating a three-year search, DeCode pinpointed a gene for schizophrenia, an illness that afflicts Stefansson's brother.
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