The facelifted Toyota Corolla Cross has launched in South Africa. Here’s a look at pricing for the updated locally built crossover, which gains fresh exterior styling and more kit… Almost a year ago, ...

Genetic counselling is an educational process that aims to inform and advise patients and relatives at risk of a genetic condition about the nature of the disorder, the probability of developing ...

Established in October 2024 and the largest of its kind in South-east Asia, the Ocular Genetics Service (OGS) provides a centralised and specialised approach to diagnosing and managing inherited ...

The genetic cross-referencing was based on data from 688,808 people diagnosed with major depression and 4.3 million people without the condition, across 29 countries and a wide range of ethnicities – ...

Polygenic scores (PGS) are metrics used to estimate the genetic predisposition of people to developing specific mental health conditions, personality traits or diseases. In recent years ...

For 30 years, researchers have known that Huntington's is caused by an inherited mutation in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene, but they didn't know how the mutation causes brain cell death. A study ...

Because CAG repeats in different cells cross the toxicity threshold at different times, the cells as a group disappear slowly over a long period, starting about 20 years before symptoms appear and ...

Whole genome sequencing, which is also being used widely to improve treatments of difficult-to-diagnose diseases as well as for genetic screening of newborns, has given hope to patients with ...

The study identifies 106 genetic variants linked to occupational status, highlighting the interplay between genetics, family environment, and childhood aspirations.

This simple activity asks students to use a fun, oral activity to engage with persuasive thinking and explore how to form a convincing opinion or debate. Introduce students to persuasive vocabulary ...

There is evidence that Crohn’s disease is genetic, though environmental factors may also be involved. Crohn’s disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes inflammation in ...