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Steven Marks is preparing to welcome his first students next year at a sparkling new veterinary school at Clemson University. The founding dean’s inaugural class will include budding scientists who hope to one day join laboratories and work on cures for the world’s most challenging diseases.

Marks isn’t sure what to tell them about the future.

Animal research, the time-tested method of proving new medicines are safe for humans, is changing faster than Marks can open the doors to South Carolina’s first veterinary college. Federal funds are drying up, research projects are shutting down and major federal health agencies are phasing out animal testing in favor of new alternatives, a joint

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