{"id":45713,"date":"2022-07-09T15:11:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T15:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rochellesthrezrs.com\/can-new-tools-help-early-covid-detection\/"},"modified":"2022-07-09T15:11:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T15:11:54","slug":"can-new-tools-help-early-covid-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rochellesthrezrs.com\/can-new-tools-help-early-covid-detection\/","title":{"rendered":"Can New Tools Help Early COVID Detection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\">\n<p>Scientists at Scripps Research and University of California, San Diego, detected Alpha, Delta, and Omicron variants days before it was first reported clinically from the city&#8217;s wastewater. <\/p>\n<div id=\"hidecontent\">\n\t\t\t <!--include file=\"..\/mob-light\/ads\/news-ads.asp\"-->\t  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a lot of places, standard clinical surveillance for new variants of concern is not only slow but extremely cost-prohibitive. But with this new tool, you can take one wastewater sample and basically profile the whole city,&#8221; said Kristian Andersen, Professor of Immunology and Microbiology at Scripps Research. <br \/>\n <center><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement&#13;<br \/>\n<!-- rwd-common-middle -->&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The team deployed 131 wastewater autosamplers to collect wastewater from 343 buildings on the university campus and 17 public schools across 4 San Diego school districts, and acquired samples from large wastewater treatment facilities in the county. <\/p>\n<p>Over the course of nearly a year, the group analyzed more than 20,000 wastewater samples. &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<h2> COVID Detection from Wastewater <\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s challenging to take all these tiny pieces of virus floating around in wastewater and figure out which ones are from different variants and what their relative abundance is,&#8221; said Joshua Levy, Scripps Research postdoctoral fellow. <\/p>\n<p>They have typically done this by sequencing virus genomes from patients, which is a slow and costly process and has become less effective at capturing the extent and diversity of Covid-19 variants as many people turn to at-home testing. <\/p>\n<p>Levy developed a library of &#8220;barcodes&#8221; that identify SARS-CoV-2 variants based on short snippets of their RNA that are unique to each variant. Then, he coded a new computational tool that sifts through the mass of genetic information in wastewater to find these barcodes. He made the new Freyja programme easy to use and free. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re in a lab that can already sequence a wastewater sample, you&#8217;re good to go &#8212; you just run this code and in another 20 seconds you&#8217;re done,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;IANS <\/p>\n<p>rvt\/dpb<\/p>\n<p>Source: IANS  &#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;\n\t\t\t \t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medindia.net\/news\/can-new-tools-help-early-covid-detection-207865-1.htm\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Scripps Research and University of California, San Diego, detected Alpha, Delta, and Omicron variants days before it was first reported clinically from the city&#8217;s wastewater. &#8220;In a lot of places, standard clinical surveillance&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/rochellesthrezrs.com\/can-new-tools-help-early-covid-detection\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety","odd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rochellesthrezrs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/the-new-delta-plus-variant.jpg?fit=300%2C250&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochellesthrezrs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochellesthrezrs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochellesthrezrs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochellesthrezrs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochellesthrezrs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rochellesthrezrs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochellesthrezrs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rochellesthrezrs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochellesthrezrs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rochellesthrezrs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}