The Nucleic Acid Observatory is now SecureBio Detection
Mar 9, 2026 • Jeff Kaufman
New preprint: Metagenomic sequencing of composite airplane wastewater for surveillance of emerging viruses
Feb 23, 2026 • Mike McLaren
SecureBio AI: 2025 in Review
Feb 17, 2026 • Ben Mueller, Seth Donoughe
Metagenomics: A solution to PCR failures
Feb 16, 2026 • Alessandro Zulli
SecureBio Selected to Develop Bio-Evals for the European Commission
Feb 3, 2026 • SecureBio
Building a detection system for respiratory pathogens
Dec 5, 2025 • Simon Grimm
NAO Updates, November 2025
Nov 11, 2025 • NAO Team
Our Research on Wastewater Sequencing Sensitivity Now in The Lancet Microbe
Oct 22, 2025 • Simon Grimm, Jeff Kaufman, Dan Rice, Charles Whittaker, Will Bradshaw, Mike McLaren
Scaling US pathogen detection
Sep 23, 2025 • Simon Grimm, Lennart Justen, Jeff Kaufman
Benchmarking three ONT-based workflows for untargeted sequencing of RNA viruses in wastewater
Sep 15, 2025 • Vanessa Smilansky & Katherine Stansifer
The NAO is Hiring for Partnerships, Response, Virology, and Wet Lab Management
Aug 25, 2025 • Jeff Kaufman
Evaluating Outward Assembly on a Surprising Junction
Jul 24, 2025 • Evan Fields
NAO Updates, July 2025
Jul 9, 2025 • NAO Team
Estimating the sensitivity of wastewater metagenomic sequencing using nasal swabs
Jun 8, 2025 • Simon Grimm, Dan Rice, Mike McLaren
SecureBio’s AI Team: An Overview of Our Biorisk Evaluations
Jun 4, 2025 • SecureBio
Pooled Lab Discards for Pathogen Detection
May 14, 2025 • Jeff Kaufman, Lennart Justen
AIs Can Provide Expert-Level Virology Assistance
Apr 23, 2025 • Jasper Götting
Outward Assembly
Apr 16, 2025 • Evan Fields
NAO Updates, April 2025
Apr 15, 2025 • NAO Team
An Update on Our Air Sampling Research
Apr 3, 2025 • Lennart Justen, Simon Grimm, Will Bradshaw
Scaling Our Pilot Early-Warning System
Apr 2, 2025 • Jeff Kaufman
Exploring Blood-Based Biosurveillance, Part 3: The Blood Virome
Feb 7, 2025 • Harmon Bhasin, Michael McLaren, Lennart Justen
NAO Updates, January 2025
Jan 9, 2025 • NAO Team
Fund the Nucleic Acid Observatory to Detect Stealth Pandemics
Nov 18, 2024 • Jeff Kaufman, Mike McLaren, Will Bradshaw
Testing Genetic Engineering Detection with Spike-Ins
Oct 22, 2024 • Jeff Kaufman
NAO Updates, Fall 2024
Oct 17, 2024 • NAO Team
Predicting Influenza Abundance in Wastewater Metagenomic Sequencing Data
Sep 23, 2024 • Jeff Kaufman
Exploring Blood-Based Biosurveillance, Part 2: Sampling Strategies within the US Blood Supply
Sep 10, 2024 • Harmon Bhasin, Lennart Justen
Exploring Blood-Based Biosurveillance, Part 1: Blood as a Sample Type
Jul 16, 2024 • Harmon Bhasin, Lennart Justen
Investigating the Sensitivity of Pooled Swab Sampling for Pathogen Early Detection
Jul 1, 2024 • Simon Grimm, Will Bradshaw
Detecting Genetically Engineered Viruses With Metagenomic Sequencing
Jun 27, 2024 • Jeff Kaufman
NAO Updates, Spring 2024
May 20, 2024 • Jeff Kaufman, Olivia Hershey, Mike McLaren, Will Bradshaw
New NAO Preprint: Indoor Air Sampling for Detection of Viral Nucleic Acids
May 13, 2024 • Lennart Justen, Simon Grimm, Will Bradshaw
Simulating Approaches to Metagenomic Pandemic Identification
Apr 3, 2024 • Jeff Kaufman, Dan Rice
Comparing sampling strategies for early detection of stealth biothreats
Feb 19, 2024 • Will Bradshaw, Simon Grimm
Predicting Virus Relative Abundance in Wastewater
Aug 10, 2023 • Jeff Kaufman, Dan Rice, Simon Grimm, Mike McLaren
Air sampling for early pathogen detection
Feb 3, 2022 • Lennart Justen, Will Bradshaw