She had been hired as a seamstress to accompany a crew organized by the Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who sought to claim the desolate island between Alaska and Russia for the British Empire.

Founded by neurologist Kári Stefánsson, deCODE has specialized in using the island’s extraordinary ... independence under the watchful eye of Stefansson. deCODE’s genomic prowess was on ...

It is a stark reminder of the propensity of this desolate island, with its jagged lava fields and steaming fissures, to shudder or explode. The keeper of the samples is Kári Stefánsson ...

analysed the genomes of 25 ancient Icelanders whose skeletal remains were found in burial sites across the island. Sequencing using samples from teeth revealed the settlers had a roughly even ...