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Understood truffle.............!
real time then......?
All the best (I'm pleased them x2 PhD girls don't sewer crawl fosho :()
Chesh, they don`t crawl around sewers,
the have a robotic arm positioned in sewer.
It needs to truffle..................!
given the time taken to crawl around sewers and grab samples, get 'em to the lab, test, and then eventually get results........... x2 weeks later........ ish :()
All the best (I know of a better method :)
JB, we know it`s not real time, but with 6mil
in the pot, that pays for a lot of R&D.
Perhaps after we've provided global real time alerts for future pandemic breakouts...........!
we can turn our attention to "Biobot’s platform can trace health indicators that provide insights into drug us", with a collaboration obvs.......... :)
All the best (a little Big brother mind.... :()
@trufflehound @Chrysalis1
Worth taking a look at how it works https://www.biobot.io/covid19 on this page
Step 1 collect samples
Step 2 mail in sample
Step 3 lab analysis
Step 4 data analysis
Step 5 data interpretation they provide weekly updates
Real-time? Nah!!!
Hi Truffle,
Indeed an interesting article and particularly the amount of funding the project is able is able to attract.
I did a bit of research into Biobot a while ago and it would appear that they are a company who analyse waste water as a tracking mechanism as opposed to be working towards an early/immediate warning solution in that they take samples back to the labs.
As such I personally am not unduly worried and indeed would see this as a company under the business model we seem to have adopted as actually collaborating with in the future.
I posted an article some time ago about a scheme in Wales which claims to be a pilot project for the UK; funded with £500K
by the Government.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sewage-systems-analysed-coronavirus-human-22223335
Both the Bangor university and the Biobot studies bear many similarities in that they are taking samples from just about every wastewater stream they have the resources for and then taking them back to the labs to analyse them. The majority of their tests will no doubt be negative (due to the trial and error nature of the sample taking) and subsequently a waste of time , money and resources; but from the few that may be positive they would be able to analyse the viral load and make estimates of the number of infections there may be upstream of that particular waste stream.
If they were to incorporate the SKIN/MWG solution, they would only need to go to those sources where the alert has been triggered, they would be guaranteed a positive result from the lab and thereby save a lot of time, money and indeed resources.
Interestingly, the UK Pilot project in Wales has been funded for 6 months and hence by my maths takes it up to a point shortly after when the SKIN/MWG solution is slated to be completed and operational.
Fingers Crossed and ATB