Tag: ATM keypads

What kind of DNA lingers on ATM keypads? Your food, your skin microbes…and (maybe) parasites

By Holly Bik   Posted in Bioinformatics Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports) Sequencing
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Amidst the November/December holiday chaos, myself and co-authors were proud to witness the publication of a neat new paper focused on ATM keypads in New York City. Yes, just like all other surfaces in the Built Environment, those ATM keypads are harboring lots of microbes and bits of orphaned DNA! This ATM keypad study was work that …

New papers on Microbiology of the Built Environment, November 19, 2016

By Elisabeth Bik   Posted in Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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Microbes in the city Microbial Community Patterns Associated with Automated Teller Machine Keypads in New York City – Holly M. Bik – mSphere (OA). News coverage at EurekAlert, ScienceDaily, and NYMagazine. (…) Here we carried out a baseline study of automated teller machine (ATM) keypads in New York City (NYC). Our goal was to describe …