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Technology Innovation in Health Care- Mount Sinai Hospital: WOW! Detecting Diseases by Sequencing DNA in Sewers? Learn about the efforts of Dr. Eric Schadt on disease prevention: mshs.co/1z1sRWX The germs that infect us–everything from #influenza to measles to bubonic plague–wind up in our waste. Why not look for them by using #DNA technology to sequence raw sewage? Snippets of DNA in wastewater could then be matched to known pathogens–and specific physical locations. Public health officials would no longer have to wait for someone to spike a fever to know that #Ebola virus was in Manhattan–they would be alerted by the sequences coming from the sewers, and they would know within a few blocks where it was.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 16:06:08 +0000

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