“Wastewater provides representative data on viral strains”
Niko Beerenwinkel, a Professor at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zurich in Basel, is working with colleagues from other research institutions to examine wastewater for traces of the coronavirus. He has detected the Delta variant in five out of six Swiss wastewater treatment plants examined, including ones in Zurich and Bern. Recently he spoke with ETH News.
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Consult the new website on the surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 genomic variants in wastewater.
Learn about the Computational Biology group led by Niko Beerenwinkel.
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