Category: Genetics
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Health: Prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is a biologically heterogeneous disease that affects the prostate gland, a small gland in males located below the bladder and in front of the rectum. The prostate plays a critical role in producing seminal fluid. Prostate cancer can range from slow-growing tumors that may never cause symptoms or require treatment, to highly aggressive…
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Science: Genetics
1. Foundations of Genetics: The field of genetics is fundamentally concerned with understanding heredity, the process by which parents transmit specific traits to their offspring 1. This discipline delves into the intricacies of how these traits are passed from one generation to the next, focusing particularly on genes as the basic units responsible for this…