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.

On the dashboard released Wednesday on the county's website, a summary chart breaks down how a virus is circulating in the ...

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

San Diego County's public health lab has begun in- house wastewater testing for diseases circulating through the community, with the results published on an online public dashboard.

BIG RAPIDS, Mich. — A lab at Ferris State University is using a new wastewater testing program to help forecast possible infectious disease outbreaks on campus and in surrounding communities. The ...

In north Denver, next to the South Platte River is a series of big pools. This is Metro Water Recovery, a treatment plant — the state’s largest according to employees. On a visit there, you can see ...

Anna Yakos, a clinical laboratory analyst at the State Hygienic Laboratory in Coralville, performs an extraction from a specimen as a part of the influenza testing process. (Photo courtesy of the ...

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 ...

The Asian Development Bank, with support from the Government of Austria and research partners including Emory University, piloted wastewater-based epidemiology in Nepal and the Philippines to show how ...

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 ...