BERKELEY (CBS SF) -- A team of scientists from the University of California, Berkeley launched a pop-up lab this month to test wastewater from throughout the Bay Area for the novel coronavirus, the ...

Issmat Kassem, a microbiologist and assistant professor at the University of Georgia’s Center for Food Safety, has been worried for a while about antibiotic resistance. His research focuses on what he ...

During four days in mid-July someone – maybe one visitor or two – used the toilet in their vacation rental or motel room in the small Oregon coast community of Yachats. They carried the coronavirus.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Since 2020, UB researchers, including students, have been testing wastewater for RNA fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 as part of a program to monitor outbreaks in Western New York.

CEDAR RAPIDS — To learn more about coronavirus in the community, the city of Cedar Rapids is turning to human waste for clues. This summer, the city began participating in a nationwide study of ...

The Minnesota Department of Health is now publishing weekly wastewater monitoring data for COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, on its website, adding a new public ...

Sampling Truckee Meadows wastewater for the SARS-CoV-2 virus found a very clear upward spike approximately seven days before the spike appeared in the community in the form of people testing positive ...

Northern Arizona University wanted to test campus wastewater for traces of COVID-19, a process that can serve as an early-warning system for new outbreaks. One way to do that is with a composite ...

PLYMOUTH − Some people are furious after learning that the state and the owner of the former Pilgrim power plant are using the same testing lab for wastewater that could be discharged into Cape Cod ...

Inside the Pine Creek wastewater treatment plant in the south of Calgary, a lab run by the University of Calgary is busy processing wastewater samples from municipalities across the province. This lab ...