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Nature 439, 138 (12 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/439138b; Published online 11 January 2006

Testing is necessary on animals as well as in vitro

Andrew Huxley1

  1. Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ, UK

Your News Feature "More than a cosmetic change" (Nature 438, 144–146; 2005) includes an emotive photograph showing the heads of six white rabbits, immobilized to have substances dropped into their eyes, with the caption "Tests that put chemicals into the eyes of rabbits have changed little since the 1940s". This is not true, at least as far as Britain is concerned.

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