diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d868e52..2ac64bf 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ patsy>=0.4.1
 permute==0.1a4
 pymc>=2.3.6
 pybiomart==0.2.0
-requests==2.20.0
+requests==2.31.0
 requests_cache==0.4.13
 rpy2>=2.3.10
 scikit-learn==0.18.1