Abstract
An undercover investigation at Cambridge University by a group that opposes vivisection is prompting a review of how animal experiments are licensed in the United Kingdom. Last week, High Court Judge Stanley Burnton agreed to allow a judicial review of two of the six charges against the U.K. Home Office, the licensing body, raised by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection. U.K. scientists must apply for licenses from the Home Office before conducting research on animals. The union is challenging the Home Office's licensing decisions, prompted by experiments at Cambridge that involved inducing stroke in marmosets to study brain function in stroke and Parkinson's disease sufferers. Among the union's concerns are that the marmosets were deprived of water.
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