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Can You Prove It? We Have Launched a Provenance Readiness Check
We have published a free, twenty-question provenance readiness check across five sections — source and identity, transformation, versions, auditability and resilience — to help you see where your…
12 Sep 20264 min read
News
The Ancient BioChain Is Now Live
The BioChain has launched The Ancient BioChain, our first public demonstrator for verifiable scientific provenance — testing whether the history of scientific evidence can stay visible, connected and…
12 Sep 20261 min read
Regulatory & Compliance
Europe’s Next Health Crisis May Be Detected in an Animal. Will the Evidence Be Connected?
Ahead of the 2026 State of the European Union address, WOAH's own figures show animal health gets 0.6% of global health spending against a $2.3bn/year fix. Belgium's Laerco…
10 Sep 202617 min read
Regulatory & Compliance
The Missing Layer in Britain’s AI-Ready Health Data Infrastructure
The US wants provenanced, reusable health data. Europe is proposing infrastructure to generate biological data for AI. Britain is building one of the world's most ambitious health-data ecosystems…
10 Sep 202617 min read
Regulatory & Compliance
Europe Is Building the Infrastructure for AI Biology. It Should Build the Evidence Chain With It.
The EU is phasing in the European Health Data Space, the US is demanding provenanced reusable health data through NIH's Data COUNTS, and the UK is testing "sample…
10 Sep 202617 min read
Science
AI Cannot Fix Irreproducible Biology
A new Nature Biotechnology argument for reference materials as common calibrators in multiomics points to a deeper problem: AI-ready biology needs not just more data, but reproducible measurements…
10 Sep 202610 min read
Regulatory & Compliance
Europe Needs a Biological Data Infrastructure. It Also Needs an Evidence Infrastructure.
At a European Parliament hearing on 8 September 2026, imec's Liesbet Lagae argued that Europe needs infrastructure to generate experimental biological data for AI-driven drug discovery. Building that…
10 Sep 202614 min read
Science
From Sewage to Sequence to Decision: The Missing Evidence Layer in Wastewater Genomic Surveillance
As wastewater genomic surveillance expands from a pandemic-era experiment into permanent infrastructure, a new problem emerges: preserving the evidence chain between the environmental sample, the analytical result and…
8 Sep 202622 min read
Science
At the Wildlife-Livestock Boundary, Genomic Data Needs a Provenance Trail
A new Microbiome study mapped viral sharing between giant pandas, wildlife and livestock in southwestern China, and found that 95.93% of RNA viruses detected could not even be…
4 Sep 202614 min read
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