Open Access: Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics has become an open-access journal starting from the first issue of 2022. All articles published thereafter will be permanently available for free reading and downloading on our journal’s website. Articles from 1974 to 2021 are not currently open access, but can be read and downloaded for free on the Chinese website of our journal. The copyright of these articles belongs to the authors, while the previously signed Article Copyright License Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.

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