This startup will map the coronavirus spread by looking at your poo

The alarming shortage of coronavirus testing has led one startup to search city sewers for insights into the outbreak. Biobot, an MIT spinout based in Massachusetts, will map the pandemic by analyzing data from sewage samples collected from across the US. The idea for the project came from new research showing that SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, is shed in poo that flows through our toilets into city sewage systems. Biobot wants to test this sewage for SARS-CoV-2, and then use the data to create a map of the virus as it spreads to new places. [Read: The coronavirus is strengthening…

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