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IgA nephropathy has a complex hereditary pattern. You may not develop it unless you inherit multiple risk genes and also ...

The Human Genome Project, launched in 1990 and completed in 2003, also moved the needle. Scientists had successfully ...

The unfolding legal battle over the late former Deputy President David Mabuza’s R44 million pension payout has become a cautionary tale for South Africans in customary partnerships. With two women ...

Kabuki became a popular dramatic art form, with its use of make-up and facial expressions rather than masks, as well as its ...

New research reveals how complex interactions between genetic variants can explain different outcomes in disorders like ...

Edward A. Birge. Springer Verlag, New York. 2000. Pp. 559. Price £44.50, hardback. ISBN 0 387 98730 4. This is very much a pre-genomic, ‘E. coli-centric’ treatise on prokaryotic genetics with a ...

The kidney is an excellent model in which to study the mechanisms of organogenesis. During kidney development, the epithelial ureteric buds branch and induce the surrounding mesenchymal cells to ...

We know that most cancers happen because of aging, lifestyle choices, and exposure to harmful environmental factors like chemicals or UV rays from the sun. Sometimes changes that lead to cancer are ...

Long-time Royal Society of Chemistry member Nevin Stewart reflects on how chemistry has played a key role in his life.