Nucleic Acid Observatory

Fund the Nucleic Acid Observatory to Detect Stealth Pandemics

November 18, 2024 • Jeff Kaufman, Mike McLaren, & Will Bradshaw

Testing Genetic Engineering Detection with Spike-Ins

October 22, 2024 • Jeff Kaufman

NAO Updates, Fall 2024

October 17, 2024 • NAO Team

Predicting Influenza Abundance in Wastewater Metagenomic Sequencing Data

September 23, 2024 • Jeff Kaufman

Exploring Blood-Based Biosurveillance, Part 2: Sampling Strategies within the US Blood Supply

September 10, 2024 • Harmon Bhasin & Lennart Justen

Exploring Blood-Based Biosurveillance, Part 1: Blood as a Sample Type

July 16, 2024 • Harmon Bhasin & Lennart Justen

Investigating the sensitivity of pooled swab sampling for pathogen early detection

Sequencing swabs in non-hospital settings could offer reliable pathogen-agnostic early detection

July 1, 2024 • Simon Grimm & Will Bradshaw

Detecting Genetically Engineered Viruses With Metagenomic Sequencing

A chimera detection approach

June 27, 2024 • Jeff Kaufman

NAO Updates, Spring 2024

What we’ve been working on and our plans for the next quarter

May 20, 2024 • Jeff Kaufman, Olivia Hershey, Mike McLaren, & Will Bradshaw

New NAO Preprint: Indoor Air Sampling for Detection of Viral Nucleic Acids

A new review article examines the feasibility of surveilling indoor air for novel viral pathogens

May 13, 2024 • Lennart Justen, Simon Grimm, & Will Bradshaw

Simulating Approaches to Metagenomic Pandemic Identification

A tool to model the cost and sensitivity of different sampling approaches

April 3, 2024 • Jeff Kaufman & Dan Rice