Voters in the Swiss referendum, calling for a ban on animal research in the country, have emphatically rejected it by 79% to 21%. It was the fourth failed vote on the issue since 1985. The Swiss government and parliament had both recommended voters reject the initiative as it was considered too radical. And in a smaller, but equally significant canton referendum, Basel city rejected a call to give basic ‘human’ rights to all non-human primates in the cantonal constitution, by