A major part of the answer is the pull of so-called translational research, or translational medicine, which seeks to apply the knowledge generated in basic biological research to actual therapies or vaccines for human diseases. continued...

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Reprinted from the HHMI Bulletin,
March 2002, pages 22-25.
©2002 Howard Hughes
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