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 ...

Steven Balogh is a virus hunter. “The last two years, it’s been looking 24/7, looking at COVID, SARS-CoV-2,” he says. “Trying to figure out what the numbers are telling us.” Balogh, the principal ...

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.

LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Siena College is participating in a student initiated wastewater testing program. School officials say the program can pinpoint positive cases of the coronavirus ...

The state has a cutting-edge system built during COVID but that can detect other viruses and diseases.

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 ...

REPORTER: THE BATTLE AGAINST COVID-19 CONTINUES ABOVE GROUND IN THE FORM OF VACCINATIONS AND WEARING MASKS, THERE IS ALSO A BATTLE BELOW GROUND FOR DATA FROM WASTEWATER THAT COULD HELP PREVENT FUTURE ...

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 ...

The Hawaiʻi Department of Healthis reporting that a wastewater sample from Kauaʻi County has tested positive for measles ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- In a BioSafety Level 2 lab at U.C. Berkeley, scientists spend all day looking at wastewater. At first read, it may sound gross but it is the work of a lifetime for scientists ...

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 ...