Wastewater
topic on 1 show · 2 statements across 1 episodes
2 statements about Wastewater, every show
Less than one percent of genetic data in wastewater originates from humans
“We found that much less than one percent of the genetic data we got back was coming from people.”
Wastewater is an overlooked, non-invasive source of population health data
“Wastewater had been massively overlooked as a critical source of data to understand population health, and I think that the beauty of tapping into pee, poo, or wastewater as a data source is that we naturally are excreting it out. So rather than needing to be …”