diff --git a/agentica/agentic-flow/examples/crispr-cas13-pipeline/docs/docker/diff-expr-service/requirements.txt b/agentica/agentic-flow/examples/crispr-cas13-pipeline/docs/docker/diff-expr-service/requirements.txt
index 670e3a1..7c2767e 100644
--- a/agentica/agentic-flow/examples/crispr-cas13-pipeline/docs/docker/diff-expr-service/requirements.txt
+++ b/agentica/agentic-flow/examples/crispr-cas13-pipeline/docs/docker/diff-expr-service/requirements.txt
@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@ prometheus-client==0.19.0
 # Utilities
 requests==2.33.0
 pyyaml==6.0.1
-python-dotenv==1.0.0
+python-dotenv==1.2.2