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Regulatory & Compliance
Europe Has Started Mandating WGS Data Sharing. The Next Challenge Is the Evidence Around the Genome
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/179 now mandates WGS data sharing for major foodborne pathogens across Europe. The harder question it exposes is not whether genomes can move between…
4 Sep 202613 min read
Science
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…
4 Sep 202612 min read
Science
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…
3 Sep 202610 min read
Science
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…
3 Sep 202614 min read
Science
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…
3 Sep 202613 min read
Infrastructure
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…
2 Sep 202649 min read
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…
2 Sep 202610 min read
Trade & Market Access
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Brazil's EU beef authorisation was withdrawn over antimicrobial guarantees, and EUDR adds a second evidence-intensive market-access regime in December 2026.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…
2 Sep 202613 min read
News
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…
1 Sep 20262 min read
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