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We developed the OpenMTA to create a material transfer agreement that supports redistribution of biological materials including for both charitable and commercial purposes.  Linda Kahl was the lead developer. The OpenMTA provides an important and powerful option in relation to other material transfer agreements, most notably the UBMTA which restricts redistribution and commercial use. You can read and learn more about the OpenMTA at several places: (1) The "Opening options for material transfer," open access article explaining things at Nature Biotechnology (2018) by the original drafting team.  Free online here . (2) The " What is the OpenMTA?" webpage at Addgene.org.  Free online  here .  Addgene also hosts the text with one instance of the OpenMTA, for which two additional terms are added in Section III.  (3) The "OpenMTA" explainer website at OpenPlant.org.  Free online here . To use the OpenMTA 

We are the well dwellers wallowing in our well bottoms.        Our most-familiar well manifests via the gravitational force keeping us physically on Earth – a gravity well that we can escape by rocketing up, up, and away.   Escape velocity.   There is a second well, largely unseen, that manifests via the life preceding us, defining us, and burdening us in the now as corporeal forms and functions – a life well that we might eventually escape by transcending terrestrial lineage.   Life liberation.     While we have both dreamt and done rocketing beyond our gravity well we have barely conceptualized any small circle of light implying life beyond the burbling basin of attraction comprising what we are as humans and the life around us.   A life well?!   What lies beyond our life well’s lip?   An empty vacuum of extinction?   An Eden?   Stated differently, a life well is a conceptual model of the life forms existing and pr...