September 1, 2006

UCLA Professor Halts Monkey Research

By SAMANTHA HENIG

Responding to pressure from animal-rights activists, Dario Ringach, an associate professor of neurobiology at the University of California at Los Angeles, has abandoned his research on monkeys. In an e-mail message with the subject line "You win," Mr. Ringach wrote to a news office for animal-rights groups that he would no longer conduct animal research, and asked that the groups leave him and his family alone.

Mr. Ringach, who studies the visual cortices of macaques, has been harassed

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