Creating Enforceable Biosecurity Standards for Nucleic Acid Providers
A new paper from Raytheon BBN and IBBIS: Sometimes “good enough” consensus today beats waiting for perfect clarity that may never come....
icon16: Precise Amplification for All!
<div>I've loved the n6tec icon96 instrument since they first tipped me about it several years back. The idea of running 96 independent PCRs in parallel was just too attractive; the instrument I'd alw...
Who's Going to Buy Roche Axelios?
<div>After Roche's AGBT presentation, a key question for many is "who is going to buy an Axelios?". Below are some thoughts on the topic, based around general classes of sequencing labs tha...
Updated genomic analysis of the 2026 menB outbreak in Kent, UK
<p>This is a brief update to the <a href="https://www.bacpop.org/blog/menb/">previous menB analysis</a> we’d posted here.</p> <p>UKHSA have released a <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publ...
Importance of Data in Al-Enabled Biological Models
Chapter 5 of the National Academies report on AIxBio: Biological Data as Strategic Infrastructure...
LinkedIn Laments 1 of N: Where's the API?
<div>In my current role I spend a lot of time on LinkedIn. A core task is to identify possible customers, and LinkedIn is rich hunting ground. I'm still sending each reach-out message individually (th...
Weekly Recap (March 27, 2026)
NSF AI readiness, AGI forecasts, White House AI policy framework, NIH genomics technology, statistical rethinking, context anchoring, R+Quarto, NOFO graveyard & grant terminations, organ sacks, YYiki....
Life at the freezing edge
The fact that any small, cold blooded animal such as the insects can sustain temperatures below the freezing point of water has to be one of the most remarkable features of animal evolution. Even more...
ElysION Fields
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Initial genomic analysis of the 2026 menB outbreak in Kent, UK
<p>We’ve done a quick analysis on the meningitis outbreak genome to try and answer whether there is anything obviously genetically unusual about the publicly available outbreak strain.</p> <p>We...