News & updates

NS Bio’s client portal is now live. Active clients can send sequencing data and collect completed results through two secure areas running on our own UK infrastructure: an upload area for resumable transfers of datasets up to 50 GB, and a results area for downloading deliverables file by file or as a whole-batch zip.

Access is invite-only and opened by us at the start of a project. Clients sign in with a one-time passcode sent to an allowlisted email address; there is no public sign-up. Data is stored and processed on self-hosted, encrypted UK infrastructure, and every transfer is recorded on our side.

The portal shares the look and feel of this website, so moving between the two feels like one product. Quotes and project discussion continue by email for now, with in-portal quoting and richer project status on the roadmap.

NS Bio Limited has been certified under Cyber Essentials, the UK government’s baseline standard for cyber security, developed by the National Cyber Security Centre and delivered by IASME. The certification covers the whole organisation.

Cyber Essentials assesses an organisation against five technical controls that guard against the most common internet-based attacks: firewalls, secure configuration, security update management, user access control, and malware protection. For the healthcare and public-sector bodies we work with, it is a recognised marker of security hygiene and a common requirement in technical due diligence and procurement.

The certification reinforces the principles NS Bio already operates by: client sequencing data stays on UK-resident infrastructure under our control, encrypted at rest, and does not leave the NS Bio estate. Certification is valid for twelve months and will be renewed annually; the next step on our roadmap is Cyber Essentials Plus, which adds an independent technical audit of the same controls.

The certificate can be verified online.

NS Bio is the data analysis partner on the Nose-to-Tail Expedition, a solo Arctic field study led by polar explorer Mike Keen. In spring 2026 Mike skied roughly 320km alone across the sea ice of Melville Bay in north Greenland, from Kullorsuaq to Savissivik, over the course of a month, subsisting entirely on a single seal.

The study, run in collaboration with the University of Greenland (Nuuk), UCL, Kingston University and nutritionist Nic Vaughan, investigates four linked questions: whether eating one whole animal carcass can meet an adult’s full nutritional requirements; how the carcass’s nutrient profile changes as it ages; the anthropological significance of the seal to Inuit subsistence over thousands of years; and how the human and canine gut microbiome respond when sharing the same diet in prolonged isolation. Blood and stool samples were collected before, during and after the crossing.

NS Bio is providing the bioinformatics and data analysis of the microbiome results, with the laboratory work carried out at UCL. In keeping with the expedition’s commitment to open science, the findings will be made freely available once the analysis is complete.

Read more about the expedition on its crowdfunder page. We will publish a further update here when results are in.

This week we replaced our previous website with a redesign aimed at the audiences we actually work with — healthcare procurement teams, public-sector technical leads, and academic-research collaborators. The new site spells out what NS Bio does, where data is stored, and how we work, in concrete language rather than generic SaaS-speak.

The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, sourced from a self-managed git repository, with all assets (fonts, images, scripts) served from the same domain. There are no third-party trackers, no cookies set by NS Bio, and no external CDNs. See the privacy page for the full picture.

Expect occasional posts here when there’s real news to share — new capabilities, project outputs that can be shared, or short technical notes from the work.