Analytical Instruments News

  1. Surna Cultivation Technologies Partners With Evoqua Water Technologies to Offer Water Treatment Solutions 10/19/2022

    Surna Cultivation Technologies LLC, a leader in controlled environment agriculture (CEA) systems engineering and technologies, and a subsidiary of CEA Industries Inc, is proud to announce another expansion to its products and services offerings to include a portfolio of water treatment solutions.

  2. EPA Awards $1M For Research On Pathogen Detection In Wastewater Systems 10/18/2022

    Pathogens in wastewater can help identify the presence of infectious disease in a community. A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) research team led by CEE professor Thanh Huong (Helen) Nguyen seeks to improve wastewater monitoring to rapidly detect the emergence and spread of infectious disease in the current COVID-19 pandemic and to detect other pathogens that could cause future pandemics.

  3. CDC Plans To Test National Wastewater For Polio As Community Spread Worsens 9/28/2022

    As wastewater analysis rises in prominence, becoming a critical tool to track and combat the spread of disease, it will now be put to use to fight back against the reemergence of a life-threatening virus.

  4. Preparing For The Next Pandemic: NSF Grants $1M To UB To Develop A Rapid Response System And Build Community Trust 9/27/2022

    They introduced genomic sequencing of the coronavirus to Western New York. They sampled wastewater to determine the level of the virus locally. They partnered with local groups to boost vaccinations and share scientific information in user-friendly ways.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.