February 27, 2008

Latest Attack on a California Scientist Who Uses Animals in Research Signals Shift in Tactics

By Richard Monastersky

Wearing bandanas around their faces, several assailants on Sunday attacked the home of a researcher who uses mice to study breast cancer at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

While the researcher and her children cowered in the back of their house just after noon, the assailants assaulted her husband and then fled in a car. The incident reflects an escalation of violence by animal-rights extremists in the United States, who until now have not physically attacked

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