Kelly: Ginkgo runs pathogen wastewater monitoring in US, Qatar, and Ukraine
Jason Kelly · No Priors Ep. 34 | With Ginkgo Bioworks Co-Founder and CEO Jason Kelly · Sep 28, 2023 · at 21:24
Jason Kelly, CEO of Ginkgo Bioworks, explains Ginkgo's biosecurity and biological surveillance programs to hosts Sarah Guo and Elad Gil.
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“One of the things we're doing is, like, with the CDC, we run programs where we collect wastewater from inbound airplanes, and we sequence the DNA, and we look for pathogens, we look, we monitor variants and all this, both for flu and COVID, and I can add other things to that list. We have a similar program, actually, in Doha Airport in Qatar, we've got a program in Ukraine, and think of these, like, bio radar stations.”
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