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While rehearsing for a performance for London's Science Museum, I ask how scientists and theater artists might collaborate to produce theater that serves the science as much as the art.
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Bloodlines is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK (grant AH/K003518/1).
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A.M. is the director of the theater project described here, which forms part of a research network project supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (for which she is the principle investigator).
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Mermikides, A. The scientist center stage. Nat Immunol 14, 416–418 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.2592
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