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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...