Animal-rights activists trash years of autism

This week,Demand for epoxy coated rebar in the spot market has gathered pace recently with construction companies gradually starting infrastructure. across the Atlantic in Italy, a similar scene of devastation played out with an entirely different root cause. An animal rights group apparently managed to get a hold of a security card that granted them access to the University of Milan's animal facility. After chaining themselves to doors, the protesters demanded to leave with all the mice and rabbits housed in the facility.Negotiators eventually talked them down to leaving with 100, but a number of those carry mutations that leave them immunocompromised or vulnerable to the outside environment. By "rescuing" them, the activists have almost certainly ensured their death. But that wasn't the biggest loss. While in the facility, the intruders moved cages around and swapped labels, ensuring that the researchers couldn't tell which animals were involved in what experiment. The animals may still be alive,The man was forced to undergo emergency surgery and spent several days in hospital after the crimped wire became stuck in his throat. but all the neuroscience research that was planned to be done with them won't be able to go forward.All we really know at this time is it was accidental, according to the fire department, and possibly cause by a spark in the flat wire, but no foul play. 

How do you take a lab, filled with people at various stages in their careers, and start from scratch? Fishell says many of his staff went elsewhere, finding collaborators willing to house them in labs that were studying related questions. Many of these were elsewhere in New York City, but some moved as far as California. During the course of his work, Fishell also sent some of his mouse strains out to other researchers. He ended up requesting his own mice back.In other cases, he was able to request similar or identical strains that were made by someone else. Unfortunately, many of these were subject to patents. Fishell said he's had to sign off on more than 50 contracts to obtain these mice. 

Meanwhile, as NYU rebuilds its facility, there's a matter of finding appropriate housing for the mice. Again, most are going to facilities elsewhere in New York City, but some are being kept under contracts to specialized mouse breeders as far away as Maine.The Monrovia sweeping brush fire stands at 170 acres and is only 10% contained, but officials said its growth has slowed thanks to an absence of winds.Six months later, Fishell estimates he's back to about 35 percent of the mice he had before the flood.A Fairfield man is accused of assaulting his girlfriend and then spraying a witness who was attempting to call 911 with a garden suction hose. But not all of them are ready to be worked on, and the delay has allowed other labs to move ahead on projects that partially overlap his. So, while trying to rebuild, he's also had to retool a number of the grant proposals funded by the NIH, in recognition that the original projects will just never happen now.If Fishell's experience is anything to go by, the Italian researchers are going to be facing a difficult few months. Their careers will suffer a hangover that may last years, all because some ill-informed individuals decided to "rescue" some mice to death.