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Scandinavian science at its best ranges from robotic Christmas trees to drugs from sea sponges and a great line in embryonic stem cells. At Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction, SMI, at Aalborg University, Director Thomas Sinkjær says: "We have really been able to progress quite quickly to clinical investigations". At his centre, engineers and neurologists are working side by side to restore impaired sensory-motor functions in the brain, be it in people who have been paralysed by strokes or in the development of advanced prostheses for amputees. Lars Arendt-Nielsen, co-director of SMI, says that when the centre was first established, researchers recognized that they would have to attract international students to fill at least half of the research positions.