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When AI Starts Designing Biology, Who Owns the Evidence Chain?

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 we reconstruct exactly how it came to exist?

Sequencing Is the Beginning, Not the End: Building an Evidence Chain for Genomic Surveillance

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…

A Million Cattle Records and One Important Question: Can We Reproduce the Evidence?

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 Virus Hidden in a Book: What 3,500 Years of Sheep Pox Can Tell Us About the Ancient BioChain

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…

Regulatory & Compliance

Who Owns the Evidence Chain?

Modern organisations are surrounded by systems of record — yet important evidence rarely respects the boundary of one application. A white paper on the provenance gap: what audit…

Regulatory & Compliance

Why Isn’t an Audit Trail Enough for Cross-Organisation Provenance?

An audit trail records what happens inside a system. Provenance asks a larger question — where evidence came from, how it changed, and how records held by different…

Regulatory & Compliance

Market Access Is Becoming a Provenance Problem

Brazil's EU beef authorisation was withdrawn over antimicrobial guarantees, and EUDR adds a second evidence-intensive market-access regime in December 2026. Both point to the same underlying problem: connecting…

The PigWare Trial Begins: Day One on Two UK Pig Farms

The PigWare trial has begun on two UK pig farms, funded by ADOPT (Innovate UK) as part of the HerdWare project to improve the sustainability of UK pig…

AI Can Analyse the Genome. Can We Reproduce What It Did?

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…

UK Salmonella Cases Near 500: Why a Genomic Fingerprint Isn’t the Same as a Traceable Source

UK Salmonella Enteritidis cases linked to imported eggs have grown from 207 to nearly 500 in weeks, spanning several European countries — and the source still isn't confirmed.…

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