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Brookhaven Lab halts planned monkey research
Photo credit: AP | A squirrel monkey is shown at Monkey Jungle in Miami. (May 25, 2010)
A proposed experiment that involves exposing tiny squirrel monkeys to blasts of potent radiation at a NASA-run facility on the campus of Brookhaven National Laboratory has been halted, according to space agency officials.
The experiment, designed by a Harvard-affiliated researcher, has been embroiled in a storm of controversy for more than a year. It has included a letter-writing campaign...
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