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Nature 444, 808-810 (14 December 2006) | doi:10.1038/444808a; Published online 13 December 2006

Animal research: Grey Matters

Emma Marris1

  1. Emma Marris is a reporter for Nature based in Washington DC.
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Many scientists have nuanced views on animal research. But they are rarely heard, says Emma Marris.

Many readers of The Guardian, a British newspaper, will have been surprised at a recent online article in which Sophie Petit-Zeman, a neuroscientist and journalist, explained how she could at the same time be a vivisectionist and a vegetarian1. But they will not all have been surprised in the same way.