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Video games go viral at UW educational research lab

Upstairs in the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, scientists toil away in their labs researching everything from stem cells to viruses. Downstairs, you?ll find a very different kind of laboratory. In cubicles and makeshift computer labs, a number of people sit behind their screens ? playing games. They?re not nerds, they?re researchers. OK, they are a bit nerdy and seem as glued to their screens as any game-crazed teenager. But there is science being done here, too.

Quoted: Kurt Squire, the lab’s creative director