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Life Science Alliance's articles are freely accessible to all and are deposited immediately upon publication to the Open Access repository PubMed Central/Europe PubMed Central.
Copyright on all articles published by Life Science Alliance is retained by the author(s).
Life Science Alliance publishes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 4.0 License. This license permits users to access, download, copy, display and redistribute the journal's articles, as well as adapt, translate, text- and data-mine the content.
Life Science Alliance supports unrestricted sharing of data to advance science. Consequently, any file associated with an article that is labeled as “Source Data”, “Dataset", or "Resource" is made available by the authors under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication. The authors will not exert any Copyright and Related Rights as defined therein. We encourage attribution where this is warranted by good scholarly practice.
