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Wastewater platforms will eventually track chronic diseases like cancer and diabetes
“I absolutely see the future where we will have enough data to start to learn kind of predictive components of data To then be able to look at those other more chronic diseases and ultimately, of course, be able to flag a new threat before anybody else knows ab…”
Wastewater drug tracking will transform global substance abuse crisis response
“We also absolutely believe that the drug use data that we can collect from wastewater, so use of substances like opioids, meth, cocaine, and other emerging substances, will just transform our ability to understand and to tackle that other crisis that is happen…”
Matus: The world will broadly adopt wastewater epidemiology within ten years
“I think that in 10 years, if I look out 10 years, I think that the world will have adopted this type of data collection by large. I think most places will be online, if you will.”
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.”
Cary, North Carolina saw a 40% overdose drop using Biobot wastewater data
“The message was embraced by the community, and they saw a 40% decrease in overdoses, which was also the first ever decrease they'd seen in overdoses in their town in almost a decade.”
Investors struggle with startups targeting the government as their core early customer
“It's been a challenge for many investors to wrap their heads around this new type of business model and a startup that is proposing to work with government as the target customer, as the core customer from day one.”
Wastewater testing can detect influenza, RSV, gonorrhea, and hepatitis C
“It is possible to look at influenza, RSV, other respiratory viruses, to look at gastrointestinal diseases like norovirus, to look at sexually transmitted diseases like gonorrhea or chlamydia, to look at blood-borne pathogens like hepatitis C.”
Biobot monitors wastewater for enterprise office campuses and Manhattan skyscrapers
“So we do work with some enterprise clients as well. So these are namely office buildings or campuses that are so large that they somewhat operate like a small city or a mini city. So the types of buildings we monitor can range from large office campuses or par…”
Wastewater intelligence networks become exponentially more powerful as more locations join
“The more and more locations domestically and abroad come online and are generating You know, this intelligence from their wastewater systems, the more powerful the data becomes. There truly is a network effect at play”
Biobot advises urban planners on designing smart sewers for newly built cities
“I mean, it's already happening, you know, in some countries where they are building cities sort of from scratch, where, you know, we've talked to some of the folks leading those urban planning projects around how can they build smart sewers into their design f…”
Biobot monitors wastewater in over 400 US communities for the CDC
“Through our work with the CDC, we're working in over 400 communities across the country.”
Biobot deploys wastewater testing to universities and prison systems to detect outbreaks
“And then we also work with university campuses, so similar value proposition there, and prison systems to help guide, you know, when there might be silent outbreaks in the community, and guide when they should deploy clinical tests to identify some of these si…”
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 …”