HIBT Lab! Biobot Analytics: Mariana Matus and Newsha Ghaeli

Hello and welcome to How I Built This Lab. I'm Guy Raz. So every time you go to the bathroom, you are releasing a trove of information. So much so that wastewater treatment plants. are kind of like massive data centers. There is so much we can find out about our health from our Pooh and Pee, and the technology to analyze this data

has grown at a really fast pace over the past decade. And so about five years ago, two women in Boston, one a biologist named Mariana Matus, the other an architect, Nucha Gaeli, got together to start a company to analyze sewage, and to find out whether they could detect things like diseases and viral outbreaks in specific communities. It turns out you can, and you can find out a whole bunch of other things by looking at wastewater. For example, opioid usage. Mariana and Nusha's company called BioBot Analytics Works with public health agencies and even some private companies to help them understand how to get ahead of potential crises like a new outbreak of COVID.

Let's start with um With how the That's Tell me how you guys met.

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