Honestly, if a "revolution" in animal testing is going to occur, they watershed paper will not be out of this journal. The researchers appear to be microscopy specialists, not animal research specialists. Not to denigrate their work, but the literature is littered with people making grandiose claims about how their research can be applied with very little understanding about the other discipline where they suggest it could be useful.
This article has nothing to do with leeches, it's about willful tampering with a particular protocol for their entire user population, leech or otherwise.
And yes, you are the only one. I guess it's OK if you get to decide who is a "leech" and screw the other guy.
"...to improving chemotherapy drugs whose side effects arise from their solubility or insolubility in water."
This is absolutely not true. The side effect is inherent to the molecular structure of the molecule, not its solubility or lack thereof. (If it's insoluble it doesn't get into the body, and hence doesn't have a side effect... but then it has no effect at all.)
Yes, that's right, AnimeMUD. And this was back before Dragonball Z was all the rage. We're talking Akira and MD Geist level anime here. I was bored with most of the standard Tolkein-esque MUDs, so this one was a nice change of pace.
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.