San Diego County's public health lab Wednesday began in-house wastewater testing for diseases circulating through the ...

New purification system launched by Promega includes Ceres Nanosciences’ Nanotrap® particles for virus concentration MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wastewater testing labs can now scale up their ...

As the newest dominant COVID subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 emerge, scientists are looking beyond traditional methods to track its spread. One important tool in their arsenal is wastewater surveillance.

Testing wastewater was a key tool for detecting COVID-19 as that virus rampaged through the U.S. and Colorado when the pandemic hit. Now, water treatment utilities and public health officials are ...

Durango has become a watchtower for infectious diseases. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment designated the city as a wastewater sentinel surveillance site in its evolving efforts ...

Peering into wastewater for public health has a history dating back at least to the late 19 th century, when a biologist in Boston cultured sewage in beef jelly, bouillon, boiled potatoes, and milk to ...

Each Tuesday, a team of scientists at the University of Alaska Anchorage spend much of their day carefully extracting and testing microscopic strands of ribonucleic acid found in a jug of wastewater ...

The Allegheny County Sanitary Authority's wastewater treatment plant. Hiding deep in the sprawling spiderweb of sewers across Allegheny County is the potential key to unlocking a major public health ...

Since early 2020, New York City has become a pioneer of wastewater surveillance, a method of tracking diseases in sewage that gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic. But city agencies are not ...