Basic research seeks to understand how things work. It probes the mechanisms of a person’s biology or disease. Insights from basic research percolate into the next stage, preclinical research, which involves gathering data and research insights to a specific disease or condition and how it affects the body.
At this stage, researchers generally work with cells or animals - or samples of human or animal tissues - in laboratories. They gather data on how diseases work and test the theory or mechanism of potential therapies, but they are not yet offering new treatments or therapies to patients.
These phases aim to look for knowledge gaps or limitations that - if closed - could help people live healthier and longer lives. Another goal is to test the potential of a proposed intervention in a laboratory to discover - and fix! - any issues before the intervention is tested in people.
Sanguine is frequently involved with preclinical research studies.
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