Curiosity in science refers to the motivation to investigate phenomena without a predetermined application, driven by the intrinsic desire to understand how nature works.

• Open-ended, question-focused
• No immediate clinical or practical goal
• May lead to paradigm-shifting insights
• Often the origin of future translational innovations

Engineering a protein tag system to sort molecules into EVs is curiosity-driven. Using that system to treat glioblastoma is translational.

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