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Erratum for “GPT-6 Astra Pre-Release Testing Report”
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The Myth of the “Tacit Knowledge” Barrier: Lab Inexperience Is Not a Security Strategy
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ReproBAIT: A Benchmark for Reproducing Biological AI Tools
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Response to Anthropic’s Update on Independent Evaluators
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Evaluating Superhuman Biological Capabilities
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Tracking Pathogen Variants with Untargeted Wastewater Metagenomics
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GPT-6 Astra Pre-Release Testing Report
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Introducing VCT-v2 — the updated Virology Capabilities Test
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Building a Three-Day Early-Warning System for Novel Pathogens
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SecureBio Detection Updates, August 2026
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Kimi K3 Biology Capabilities Assessment
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Review of Anthropic’s Unredacted Chemical and Biological Risk Report: Claude Opus 4.6
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GPT-5.6 Sol Pre-Release Testing Report
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Measuring Biosecurity Safeguard Effectiveness with BioTIER
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Rare Viruses, Vaccines, and More in over 1 Trillion Metagenomic Reads
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Leaving SecureBio AI in Good Hands
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Introducing SecureBio’s ‘Trends in Biology’ AI Benchmarks Dashboard
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How Frontier AI Models Perform on Viral DNA Assembly Tasks
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The Role of Evals in the Biorisk Evidence Hierarchy
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SecureBio’s Pre-Release Assessment of OpenAI’s GPT-5.5
Apr 9, 2026 • SecureBio
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SecureBio Detection Updates, March 2026
Mar 26, 2026 • Jeff Kaufman
The Nucleic Acid Observatory is now SecureBio Detection
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Outward Assembly
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NAO Updates, April 2025
Apr 15, 2025 • NAO Team
An Update on Our Air Sampling Research
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Scaling Our Pilot Early-Warning System
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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
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Nov 18, 2024 • Jeff Kaufman, Mike McLaren, Will Bradshaw
Testing Genetic Engineering Detection with Spike-Ins
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NAO Updates, Fall 2024
Oct 17, 2024 • NAO Team
Predicting Influenza Abundance in Wastewater Metagenomic Sequencing Data
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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