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The union of research and medicine that seeks to quickly translate research findings into methods for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases is called ___.

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translational medicine

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The translational word is a translational relationship adjective (the suffix al is one of the most productive in the category of relationship adjectives). Some show reluctance to call this translational research and prefer to call it applied (applied research). However, translational research is not the same as applied research. In the pharmaceutical industry, the expression translational research refers to the transfer of knowledge from basic research to the search for drugs that cure diseases, through animal and human studies. These studies are preliminary and precede large-scale clinical trials, typical of applied research, the final stage of research for the registration and marketing of a drug. Translational research is a basic research applied to the early stages of the development of a drug, while applied research is mainly rooted in industrial initiatives of a practical and commercial nature, not always linked to the clinical.

The process of transferring the knowledge of the basic sciences to the search for effective therapeutic or preventive interventions, demands an incessant interaction, a deliberate exchange of resources and knowledge, whose purpose is to make the discoveries of the basic sciences to benefit the patients. The objective is to efficiently apply the knowledge of cellular, molecular, physiological, chemical or genetic processes to the search for effective treatments or prevention or diagnostic techniques, with an approach that is summarized in English in the expression from bench to bed- side (from the laboratory to the patient's bedside).

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