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 ...

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.

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 Covid-19 pandemic has turned sewage into gold. People who are infected with the coronavirus shed the pathogen in their stool. By measuring and sequencing the viral material present in sewage, ...

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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 ...

Wastewater-based infectious disease surveillance describes the ongoing collection, analysis, and interpretation of and response to data related to the transmission of pathogens in wastewater for ...

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 ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) -- Gov. Larry Hogan announced a statewide initiative Thursday to sample wastewater as an early warning system of a COVID-19 outbreak in vulnerable communities. As part of Maryland ...