Analytical Instruments News
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Monitoring COVID-19 Virus In Honolulu Wastewater Focus Of UH Public Impact Research
8/29/2022
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers are analyzing wastewater collected in Honolulu for the COVID-19 virus and its properties to gain a greater understanding of the virusʻs community spread.
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COVID Wastewater Monitoring Techniques Adapted To Track Monkeypox
8/16/2022
As wastewater analysis has proven a critical tool in combating the spread of coronavirus, researchers now plan to leverage these techniques in the fight against the next high-profile pandemic.
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Wastewater Samples Detect Traces Of Polio In New York Wastewater
8/1/2022
Beyond screening for routine contaminants in the influent that arrives at wastewater treatment plants every day, wastewater analysis is playing a growing role in identifying the spread of deadly and highly infectious diseases. And officials have now turned to wastewater testing following the reemergence of a notorious virus in New York State.
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UB Researchers Find Link Between Medicine In Wastewater, Covid-19 Outbreaks
7/22/2022
The Covid-19 pandemic showed that wastewater can tell us a lot about public health – and University at Buffalo researchers have found that it can tell us even more.
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Awash In Potential: Wastewater Provides Early Detection Of SARS-CoV-2 Virus
7/21/2022
Writing in the journal Nature, scientists at the University of California San Diego and Scripps Research, along with local and federal public health officials, describe how wastewater sequencing provided dramatic new insights into levels and variants of SARS-CoV-2 on campus and in the broader community -- a key step in public health interventions in advance of COVID-19 case surges.
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ULM Environmental Analysis Lab Tests Wastewater, Soil In Northeast Louisiana
7/11/2022
The University of Louisiana Monroe Environmental Analysis Lab is now accredited to conduct 85 wastewater, soil and animal tissue tests to protect the health of northeast Louisiana’s land, waterways and people.
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Scientists Develop Tools For Early Detection Of SARS-CoV-2 Variants In Wastewater
7/7/2022
La Jolla, CA- It can be a bit smellier than other ways of monitoring COVID-19, but analyzing wastewater is a cheaper, faster and more accurate way for public health officials and researchers to detect rising cases.
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Monitoring COVID-19: Could Medicine Found In Wastewater Provide An Early Warning?
6/30/2022
In a pilot project exploring ways to monitor COVID-19, University at Buffalo scientists hunted for pharmaceuticals and viral RNA simultaneously in wastewater in Western New York.
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London, UK, Finds Traces Of Polio Virus In Wastewater
6/29/2022
Demonstrating the importance and potential of diligent wastewater analysis, a strain of poliovirus has been detected in buried infrastructure below London, England.
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WSSC Water Toasts Start Of $36.7M Water Quality Laboratory Expansion
6/28/2022
WSSC Water General Manager and CEO Carla Reid today joined Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) Deputy Secretary Suzanne Dorsey, WSSC Water Commission Chairman Fausto Bayonet, Grunley Construction Company Vice President of Operations Bill Six and other officials to toast the start of a $36.7M project to expand and upgrade WSSC Water’s Laboratory in Silver Spring, Maryland.