🧬 What can DNA in the air tell us?
New research co-authored by Agnos CTO @richardmleggett.bsky.social & CSO Matt Clark shows airborne metagenomics can detect biodiversity rapidly and at scale — with results in under 3 hours.
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City life: airborne DNA metagenomic biodiversity monitoring reveals dynamic changes across time and space
Airborne environmental DNA can capture biodiversity across the tree of life, but low sample biomass makes rapid, untargeted detection technically challenging. We combined 45-min air collection, nanopo...