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Stuart Zola has battled animal protectionists for much of his career, vilified as "Frankenstein" and “vivisector of the week” during demonstrations against his exploratory surgeries into the brains of macaques.

Jen Streicker has worked with lab research animals her entire adult life, first with dogs and monkeys in a Virginia lab and then with mice in North Carolina’s Research Triangle.

Dr. James Cook says once beneath a surgical drape, it’s hard to tell the joint of a dog from that of a human.

As both a veterinarian and University of Missouri professor of surgery who studies cartilage failure from injury or disease, he’s studied the joints of rats, rabbits, dogs and horses, as well as people.

Sue Leary once thought she might have a career as a biologist, but soon after getting her biology degree in 1976 from Pennsylvania State University, she concluded that path meant “being in a lab working with animals and probably doing not nice things with them.”

Dr. Thomas Hartung looks wistfully at the photo a colleague shows him of a beloved family dog that recently died.

“Unfortunately, my schedule doesn’t allow me to own a dog. It wouldn’t be fair to the dog,’’ he says.

The beer mugs were clinking on a mid-April afternoon at a hotel just off Capitol Hill.

They often do when members of the National Beer Wholesalers Association convene. The trade association’s annual legislative conference was stoked by two of the oldest ingredients in American politics -- alcohol and money.

Many police departments around the nation have misreported whether they’ve solved longstanding homicide cases, raising new doubts on how capably America is combating its most serious violent crimes.

While the vast majority of sudden deaths of babies are entirely innocent tragedies befalling loving parents, a troubling number of child murders have masqueraded, sometimes for years, as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Here's a look at some cases that have surfaced this year alone:

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