Analytical Instruments News
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New Technology For Water Quality Monitoring Receives Prestigious Award
6/14/2022
A water monitoring system developed in a collaboration between University of Birmingham researchers and Proteus Instruments, that remotely measures the quality of water in rivers, lakes and reservoirs, has resulted in a Queens Award for Enterprise (Innovation) for the company.
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U.S. Centers For Disease Control And Prevention Selects Biobot Analytics To Expand National Wastewater Monitoring
5/9/2022
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has selected Biobot Analytics to expand the agency's National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS), an integral part of President Biden's plan to fight Covid-19 and prepare the country for future pandemics.
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EPA Delivers On Three Water Commitments In The Agency’s PFAS Strategic Roadmap
4/28/2022
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing three actions to protect communities and the environment from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in our nation’s waters.
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FREDsense And Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Partnership To Develop Water Quality Biosensors
4/13/2022
FREDsense Technologies Corp, a next generation water quality platform company leveraging synthetic biology to build field kits for faster, cheaper, and more efficient analysis, and Ginkgo Bioworks the leading horizontal platform for cell programming, today announced a partnership to build biosensors for water quality monitoring and detection.
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Measuring Endocrine Disruptors In Wastewater
4/12/2022
Treating pollutants, such as endocrine disruptors, is an effective way to protect the environment. Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that alter the hormonal systems and the development of organisms that are exposed to them, even in small quantities.
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As Testing Declines, Wastewater Increasingly Critical To COVID-19 Battle
3/31/2022
Wastewater analysis is in the national spotlight like never before, as individual states and researchers have found the data it can provide to be invaluable in the ongoing fight against COVID-19. And as individual testing for the disease declines, wastewater may come to play an even bigger role in how the nation learns to live with coronavirus.
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Residual Water From The Food Industry Gives Seaweed Cultivation A Boost
3/29/2022
Process water from the food industry is an excellent fertilizer in land-based seaweed cultivation. Not only does the seaweed grow faster; its protein content also multiplies. In this way, process water can go from being a cost to becoming a resource in the food industry.
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Low-Cost Sensing Assists Climate Adaptation, Says IDTechEx
3/24/2022
‘What gets measured gets managed’ is a well-known adage in business, but could it also be applied to mitigating the effects of climate change? The recently published IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report emphasizes the importance of adaptation alongside emission reduction.
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Faster-Acting Graphene Sensor Detects Opioid Metabolites In Wastewater
3/24/2022
A sensor that detects opioid byproducts in wastewater faster and cheaper than current commonly used methods has been developed by U.S. National Science Foundation grantee researchers.
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Agencies Collaborate To Launch Wastewater Surveillance Dashboard
3/23/2022
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), Southern Nevada Health District, Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) and Desert Research Institute (DRI) are partnering to detect early increases of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID) and emerging variants in Southern Nevada through wastewater surveillance.