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Mark Lythgoe's Magnetic Stem Cells
<b>Mark Lythgoe</b><br> Factory fitter, attack dog trainer and mountain climber - perhaps not the typical background for a cutting edge scientist. But for Mark Lythgoe, a neurophysiologist who runs the experimental brain-scanning unit at University College London, an unconventional approach has allowed him to look at the science of the brain from a fresh perspective. As one of science's enfants terribles, his provocative thinking has challenged his peers to look to the arts for inspiration.
Skewed View: How do you think the arts can further scientific discovery?

Mark Lythgoe: "It's a way of thinking. Artists are, in my mind, a completely different species to scientists. They walk differently, they talk differently, they even dress differently; but more importantly they think about the world differently; and I think these differences can help and inform science."
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