Medea and the microtubule: research has been translational ever since Colchis.

摘要

"Medea of Colchis borne to heaven after killing her children." Attributed to the Policoro Painter (South Italy, active 420-380 BC). Lucanian Calyx-Krater, c. 400 BC. Red figure earthenware with added white, red, yellow, and brown Wash; H. 50.5 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hannajr., Fund 1991.1 To improve human health, scientific discoveries must be translated into practical applications. Such discoveries typically begin at "the bench" with basic research-in which scientists study disease at a molecular or cellular level-then progress to the clinical level, or the patient's "bedside." But translational research is really a two-way street in which clinical researchers make novel observations about the nature and progression of disease that often stimulate basic investigations: NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, 2009 (2)