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Nature Medicine 7, 647 (2001)
doi:10.1038/89001

Financial houses scared off by vivisectionist threats

Georgina Kenyon1

  1. London

The Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) in the UK has announced its withdrawal of all assets from HSBC after the international bank would not take a tough line against violent animal-rights protestors who continue to threaten the Cambridgeshire-based preclinical testing company, Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS).The AMRC has 112 member charities whose combined expenditure on research in the UK amounted to £540 million ($768 million) in 1999/2000.

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