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The December issue of the Journal is one that I always highly anticipate because the CSM 201 0 research abstracts are published in this issue. The variety and quality of these abstracts truly excites me about our specialty. From mechanistic studies, we can learn how the body reacts to stimuli like exercise, stress, or nutritional status. We can learn how diseases affect the different cells, tissues, and organ systems of the body. The next step is to translate these findings into human studies. Experiments with participants who do not have cardiovascular or pulmonary diseases help us understand how a human reacts to these stimuli. We can also learn important things about disease prevention from this work. Applying findings in "healthy" people to what we see in our clinical populations is also a critical step in this research continuum. It is only in studying how people react in their own environments that we can use the research to improve function and quality of life for those we serve. Similarly, a welldescribed and systematically analyzed case report can form the basis of new studies.