A massive genetic sequencing project in Iceland has produced a database that allows researchers to identify disease-causing genes at a population level. Decode, an Icelandic genetics firm owned by ...

Scientists discovered that aging DNA repeats expand at wildly different speeds—and in some people, the consequences can be devastating. A sweeping genetic study drawing on data from more than 900,000 ...

Ancient DNA from Iceland’s first centuries of habitation is forcing historians and geneticists to redraw the map of who arrived on the island, when they came, and how their descendants shaped the ...