Since the last Disease Outbreak News was published on 11 September 2026, the Bundibugyo virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has expanded further, with two additional health zones af...

The patterns and pathways of pathogen adaptation during chronic infections can reveal the gateways microbes must unlock to colonize and persist. In chronic lung infections of cystic fibrosis (CF) pati...

* Disclaimer: This is not a scientific review, just a few thoughts I had while reading..

Scientists at the company announced their first finding: a group of enzymes whose function is unknown.

CLIMB is a cloud computing infrastructure for microbial bioinformatics — notebook servers, shared storage and reproducible workflows for genomics, metagenomics and pathogen surveillance researchers ac...

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

The analysis presented in this Brief Communication shows that, despite their complexity, current deep learning models do not outperform linear baselines in predicting gene perturbation effects, thus e...

Manchester University

Top artificial-intelligence models failed to predict the biological consequences of rewriting a virus's entire DNA code.

Jagged journeys and wasted heroes

Genetic variation among microbial strains of the same species can profoundly influence their phenotypes, ecological functions, and impacts on human health. Traditionally, the relative abundance of a s...

The battle over Covid’s origins has come for Bob Garry, who’s faced some of the world’s deadliest viral threats.

Despite universities’ important role as evidence-producing organisations, they rarely draw upon research evidence for internal decision making, why?

God save us from economists who think they can competently talk about biology

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Katy Brown, Dr Emma Harding and Professor Rachael Tarlinton

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

Generative genome design models can now produce previously unobserved genome-length sequences, but assessing their capabilities is complicated by limitations in functional prediction. The ability to e...