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Big Technology Podcast

Managing Omicron With Data From Wastewater? — With Newsha Ghaeli and Mariana Matus of Biobot Analytics

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Management, Religion, Politics, Entrepreneurship, Business News, News, Investing, Marketing, News Commentary, Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Business, Tech News, Philosophy, Government, Technology

4.7596 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

As companies head back to the office, and communities try to figure out the right Covid mitigation measures, data from sewage can help them get it right. Newsha Ghaeli and Mariana Matus are the co-founders of Biobot Analytics. Their company uses data from wastewater to alert companies and communities when they’re in the early stages of Covid outbreaks. Then they can adjust appropriately. Founded out of MIT, Biobot initially took on the Opioid epidemic, helping communities figure out the right way to respond, then it expanded to Covid as the pandemic set in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

From LinkedIn News, I'm Leah Smart, host of Everyday Better, an award-winning podcast dedicated to personal development.

0:06.2

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0:24.4

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0:27.1

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0:28.4

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0:31.3

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0:35.0

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0:41.7

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1:08.1

Well, it's December 1st, Wednesday, as we come to you typically. And here we are in

1:13.9

2021. I'm about to go into 2022. There's another coronavirus variant. Everybody seems like they have no

1:19.7

idea what's going on, how we're going to handle this. And it just seems like we're stuck in this

1:25.0

end of this purgatory of being dictated to by a virus.

1:29.2

And you have to think we have such great technology.

1:31.8

Maybe technology can help us, if not solve these problems, at least get a grip on them, get a wrap on them, and start to make progress in our ability to fight them.

1:43.3

So why don't we speak with people working on the forefront

1:46.0

of this technology today? They don't just do coronavirus stuff, but it's a fascinating technology.

1:51.5

It's called wastewater epidemiology, which actually looks into our sewage and tries to help

1:57.1

figure out what's going on with our health. It's going to be a fascinating conversation. Our guests today are Mariana Matus and Nusia Galey. They are the founders of

2:05.6

Biobot Analytics. Mariana, Anusha, welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Alex.

2:12.6

So we're going to get into your product, which is fascinating, came out of MIT. You've raised

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