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Science Saturday: What happens in medical research before clinical trials begin?
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When scientific advances burst into the news, such as a new medication to treat COVID-19 or a new concept like CRISPR for gene editing, people get a glimpse of how a scientific idea becomes a treatment or a tool.
But what's the full story?
Where did that idea come from? What happens in the research lab before clinical trials begin? How is scientific discovery transformed into a potential therapy that is ready to be tested in trials with human participants?
Get these answers and more by watching "The Discovery Science Journey" to learn in three minutes:
- How the process starts in the lab with discovery science, where researchers ask fundamental questions, such as, "What changes in a cell lead to cancer?"
- What happens next, as researchers team up to combine their knowledge and speed up the pace of discovery.
- How researchers navigate the regulations that safeguard the health of clinical trial participants and prepare a discovery to enter clinical trials.
Read the rest of the article on the Discovery's Edge blog.
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Other Mayo Clinic medical research websites:
- Research at Mayo Clinic
- Advancing the Science
- Mayo Clinic Laboratories
- Forefront
- Center for Individualized Medicine
- Center for Regenerative Medicine
- Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery
- Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
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