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Translational research, in general, means to take knowledge from one area into a second. Traditional thought to represent transfer of knowledge from basic research into the clinic, translational research today covers a much broader term. Thus, most investigators will agree translational research covers a two way process that also includes taking lessons from the clinic back to the laboratory, by which biological observations in vivo would create novel hypotheses to be further explored in laboratory experiments.