Make me a virus: goodbye MTAs

Material transfer agreements - MTAs - can be infuriating. They will almost certainly exist forever, in some form or other. They say knowledge is power, so it's no surprise that people/institutions want to hold on to anything which may offer them a competitive advantage. It clearly makes sense. I've always been curious though about the amount of metaphorical wheel re-inventing which goes on across the world purely due to the fact that MTAs get in the way; considering the time and money it seems […]