Friends: The latest issue of Science (AAAS) carries a four-page article on an interesting idea. Both Prof. VijayRaghavan, Secretary, DBT, and Prof. Soumya Swaminathan, DG, ICMR and Secretary, DHR, are among the authors of the paper. Please distribute the paper referred to below widely in your institution, especially among life scientists and biomedical researchers. There was a time when the Ingelfinger rule dangled over the heads of researchers like a Democles sword, but now publishers give researchers a little more freedom. Best wishes. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 *Science* 20 MAY 2016 • VOL 352, ISSUE 6288, 899 - 902 Preprints for the life sciences The time is right for biologists to post their research findings onto preprint servers By Jeremy M. Berg, Needhi Bhalla, Philip E. Bourne, Martin Chalfie, David G. Drubin, James S. Fraser, Carol W. Greider, Michael Hendricks, Chonnettia Jones, Robert Kiley, Susan King, Marc W. Kirschner, Harlan M. Krumholz, Ruth Lehmann, Maria Leptin, Bernd Pulverer, Brooke Rosenzweig, John E. Spiro, Michael Stebbins, Carly Strasser, *Sowmya Swaminathan*, Paul Turner, Ronald D. Vale, *K. VijayRaghavan*, Cynthia Wolberger