While significant medical breakthroughs have been achieved through using animal models, our experience shows that often there is surplus material remaining that is frequently never revisited but could be put to good use by other scientists. Recognising that most scientists are willing to share this material on a collaborative basis, it makes economic, ethical, and academic sense to explore the ...

“Money makes the world go around.” We all know the truth in this line from the movie “Cabaret”, but in the field of alternative methods we talk about ethics, scientific progress, politics, animal welfare or consumer and environmental safety but rarely about money. In this series of articles, we have occasionally touched on issues that are difficult to separate from economic aspects. Most obviou...