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A new quantitative assay can detect the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater. The assay was developed by researchers at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART).

Waste water contains a treasure trove of data on our health, well-being and inequality, and can be used to head off epidemics, track pandemics and even spot new designer drugs before their effects show up in the population. But how much information are we willing to flush down the toilet?

Researchers have developed a new method for tracking the Alpha COVID-19 variant in wastewater, potentially paving the way to monitor other variants in this way.

A new way to detect the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant in wastewater July 28, 2021MIT Researchers from the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) interdisciplinary research group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, alongside collaborators from Biobot Analytics, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and MIT, have successfully developed an innovative, open-source molecular detection method that is able to detect and quantify the B.1.1.7 (Alpha) variant of SARS-CoV-2. The breakthrough paves the way for rapid, inexpensive surveillance o...