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Animal testing 'still increasing'

The number of scientific procedures carried out on laboratory animals rose by 6% last year to just over 3.2m, the latest Home Office figures show. Science correspondent Tom Feilden gets unprecedented access to some of the country's leading research institutions to discover why.

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