Science

A new $95 million AI BioDesign initiative will put AI models and physical biology experiments into a continuous feedback loop. When an AI-designed molecule reaches the lab, can…

A study of over a million Australian feedlot cattle found the strongest predictor of respiratory-disease death was set before the animal ever arrived. What it takes to trust…

A PAHO/WHO regional bioinformatics course brought specialists from 11 countries together in Panama City to train on genomic surveillance. Its real lesson: a sequence is only the beginning…

Researchers recovered 3,500-year-old sheeppox virus DNA from archaeological remains and medieval manuscripts — some of it from parchment itself. What that reveals about ancient pathogens is also a…

A new deep-learning method for calling cancer variants from long-read sequencing shows how powerful AI-assisted genomics is becoming — and why the provenance chain now has to cover…

A new £12.47-per-sample sequencing method from the Wellcome Sanger Institute shows genomic surveillance can get radically cheaper. What happens to the infrastructure around it once it does?

Denmark analysed 738,944 SARS-CoV-2 genomes and found 303 persistent infections — but only because the sequences stayed linked to health records, timing and each other. What that says…

A Q&A with Ashley Morgan on two June 2026 studies — 5,500-year-old plague in Siberian hunter-gatherers and 700,000 Danish COVID genomes — and what both reveal about turning…