Vienna, Austria-based Markus Rose, editor of Rosecast is a financial astrologer who takes his cues from the geometry of heavenly bodies and uses a modified version of the 1947 Bradley model to call market turning points.

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Thanks to the three Rs, animal research had been falling from a peak of about 5.5m procedures a year in the 1970s, but recently numbers have stabilised, as genetically modified animals have started to be used to model human disease.

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