Analytical Instruments News

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.