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Biobot Analytics: Using Sewage Analysis for Public Health Insights
TLDR Biobot Analytics, founded by two women in Boston, analyzes sewage to detect diseases, viral outbreaks, and opioid usage in communities, providing valuable data for public health agencies, government infrastructure, and private industry. Their innovative wastewater intelligence platform has helped reduce overdoses by 40% in a community through an educational campaign focused on safe disposal of prescription opioids.
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Two women in Boston founded Biobot Analytics to analyze sewage and detect diseases and viral outbreaks in communities, including opioid usage, by studying wastewater.
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Anousha moved to Boston to work on urban challenges and met Mariana, leading to their collaboration on analyzing sewage data for public health insights.
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Mariana and her team conducted experiments to analyze sewage data for public health insights, initially focusing on tracking the flu and eventually discovering a wealth of data on diseases, medications, and infections present in wastewater.
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Biobot Analytics was the first company to bring wastewater intelligence to market, aiming to provide valuable data on infectious diseases, medications, and infections present in wastewater for public health and safety infrastructure improvements.
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Biobot Analytics focuses on measuring infectious diseases in wastewater, providing early warnings and valuable data for public health agencies and government infrastructure.
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Biobot Analytics' wastewater intelligence platform provides valuable data on infectious diseases and opioids consumption, benefiting various stakeholders from communities to government agencies and private industry.
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Biobot Analytics' data helped a community reduce overdoses by 40% through an educational campaign focused on safe disposal of prescription opioids.
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Mariana and Newsha founded Biobot Analytics based on their shared interest in entrepreneurship and innovation, aiming to empower people through data collected from wastewater to address public health crises like drug use.
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In the future, it may be possible to identify individual biomarkers in wastewater, but it would be technically challenging and require careful consideration of ethical and privacy implications.
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