Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense investigates, present participle investigating, past tense, past participle investigated verb If someone, especially an official, investigates an event, situation, or claim, they try to find out what happened or what is the truth.
7. Prognosis is the likely outlook of a disease: whether it is likely to be cured and the personâs life expectancy. After a diagnosis of breast cancer, people often start to wonder about their prognosis. But they vary in how much information they want.rognosis can be put into words (such as excellent, good, poor) or numbers. Itâs often expressed as five-or ten-year survival, which is a snapshot of how many people are likely to be alive five and ten years after diagnosis.
Gene expressiondescribes the profile of which genes are transcribed and translated, and the extent to which they are expressed. The pattern of gene expression is cell or tissue specific. For example, an individual's neurons will express different proteins than their liver cells.