of open source biology (BiOS, Biological
Innovation for Open Society)11 and in
institutional collaborations to facilitate
access to crucial enabling technologies
(PIPRA, Public Intellectual Property Rights
for Agriculture)12. They support the widespread
adoption of the Uniform Biological
Material Transfer Agreement (UBMTA) for
exchanges among scientists, long advocated
by the National Institutes of Health13. In
concurrence with previous related research,
they offer no reason to continue supporting
a stronger academic research exemption as
urged, for example, by Cukier14.