Fourth Eon Biosecurity
Building adaptive biosecurity infrastructure for the age of engineered biology.
Fourth Eon is an independent nonprofit institute mission-locked on researching, developing, and deploying new technologies to detect and block engineered biological threats.
Research
Adaptive Biosecurity Infrastructure
SCREEN
Developing, testing and deploying function-based screening for nucleic acid and protein synthesis.
SHIELD
Protocol-level biohazard detection for cloud labs and autonomous experimental platforms.
INTERLOCK
Hardware and firmware-level security for benchtop nucleic acid synthesis devices.
SAFEGUARD
Function-based biosecurity constraints for biological AI models, LLMs, and agents.
THRESHOLD
Biosecurity capability evaluations and benchmarks for biological AI models.
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Fourth Eon partners with researchers, funders, institutions, and organizations advancing adaptive biosecurity.