Kanikah Mehndiratta, MSc, University of Glasgow The ever-growing world population poses serious concerns for food shortage, until and unless the situation is targeted through newer approaches. These approaches to food supply should meet the demand for essential nutrients such as potassium, nitrogen, and phosphorus. Domestic wastewater, also called black water (BW) can be considered one […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata A memorandum of understanding (MOU) among Hokkaido University, Shionogi & Co. Ltd., Robotic Biology Institute Inc., and iLAC Co. Ltd., led to the setting up of an automated system for the study of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater. The focus of the collaborative project is towards the establishment of an automated methodical […]
-Ruchita Karmakar, Amity University Kolkata Researchers extracted the nucleic acid from the sludge solid and used the reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) to find the N1 and N2 gene that targets SARs-CoV2. They successfully detected the pathogen in all samples of wastewater. A high-resolution data-set, better than influent and the statistical analysis, emerged from examining wastewater. […]
