What is the difference between basic research and clinical research?
Basic research is the study of the fundamental processes of nature: how something works; what are the principles behind the process. It is this kind of information that provides the foundation for real advances in technology. The basic research results are used in applied research. In the medical area, applied research is called clinical research. Clinical research, for example, might take the basic information about how tumor cells grow and use that to develop a new anticancer agent.
