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Nature 454, 274 (17 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/454274c; Published online 16 July 2008

Open Innovation Challenges

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Health science: from bench to bedside to trench and back

Simon J. Craddock Lee1

  1. Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Research Ethics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390-9070, USA

The belated push to accelerate clinical discovery through translational research is an uncertain undertaking, as you remark in your Editorial 'To thwart disease, apply now' (Nature 453, 823; 2008).In addition to the conversion of laboratory knowledge into new products and the adoption of such products by providers into routine clinical practice, clinical translational research must encompass behavioural and communications science in order to study population uptake of new medical and scientific advances.

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