• Nanotechnology helps mend spinal cords in mice
• Research: Antiviral drugs could help fight diabetes
• Primate center awarded $10M grant
• HHS establishes office to manage Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority
• Changes in life-science intellectual property law to be examined

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The Zealotry Factor
When it comes to security, lab managers must match the zeal of the threat with equal animus.

In the pre-dawn hours of November 14, 2004, a Sunday, a group of animal rights fanatics illegally entered the locked Spence Laboratories, an animal research facility in the Psychology Department at the University of Iowa. The intruders somehow compromised the four-walled security system that featured perimeter, elevator, corridor, and animal room access control, including card-key access. Offices and laboratories were selectively vandalized. Paper-dissolving acid was poured on research documents. Computers used in animal research work were destroyed.

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