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Metagenomics: A solution to PCR failures

Feb 27 • Alessandro Zulli

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New preprint: Metagenomic sequencing of composite airplane wastewater for surveillance of emerging viruses

This post describes work done with Olivia Hershey, Ari Machtinger, Dan Rice, Will Bradshaw, and collaborators from Ginkgo Biosecurity and the CDC.

Feb 24 • Mike McLaren

SecureBio AI: 2025 in Review

2025 was a significant year for the SecureBio AI team – reflected by the fact that we tripled our headcount, adding to our roster of world-class…

Feb 17 • SecureBio

SecureBio Selected to Develop Bio-Evals for the European Commission

We’re excited to share that the European Commission’s AI Office has chosen SecureBio to develop biological threat evaluations (‘evals’) to support the…

Feb 3 • SecureBio

Building a detection system for respiratory pathogens

What diseases are spreading through the air right now? We mostly don't know, but we could. To better track airborne viruses, we’ve built Zephyr: a new…

Dec 18, 2025 • Simon Grimm

NAO Updates, November 2025

Since July, we’ve made major strides in scaling CASPER, expanding Zephyr, and automating our analysis systems.

Nov 12, 2025 • SecureBio

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