Analytical Instruments News

81. Sewer Slime Can Hang On To SARS-CoV-2 RNA From Wastewater 2/9/2022

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, monitoring the levels of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater entering treatment plants has been one way that researchers have gauged the disease’s spread.

82. Mysterious Coronavirus Data In NYC Demonstrates Power Of Wastewater Research 2/7/2022

    Since early in the pandemic, wastewater has played a major role in helping researchers predict large outbreaks and new strains of COVID-19. But this research is also generating a major mystery that demonstrates the potential, as well as the challenges, of wastewater analysis. 

83. LSU CEE Professor Bivins Studying Wastewater On International Flights 2/7/2022

    With the COVID-19 Omicron variant spreading like wildfire, testing has never been more important.

84. State, Local Wastewater COVID Testing Partnership Shows First St. Louis Region Decline In Six Weeks 1/26/2022

    New data shows that COVID-19 viral loads in wastewater in the St. Louis community decreased for the first time in six weeks. After reaching a near-record high the previous week, the most recent testing data showed week-over-week COVID-19 viral load levels in the region’s wastewater dropped nearly 36% last week.

85. USask Wastewater Testing For COVID-19 Sets The Standard 1/25/2022

    Just ask University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers Drs. Markus Brinkmann (PhD), John Giesy (PhD) and Kerry McPhedran (PhD), who have been analyzing wastewater and stormwater flows in Saskatoon, Prince Albert, North Battleford, and five First Nations communities, to uncover many of those stories.

86. Scientists Prove That Deadly Gene Has Jumped From A Harmless Organism To A Nasty Pathogen 1/18/2022

    University of South Australia scientists have made a surprising discovery in the origins of an antibiotic-resistant gene previously thought to have been confined to Adelaide.

87. Gene Discovered In Georgia Water A Possible Global Threat 1/12/2022

    A gene that causes bacteria to be resistant to one of the world’s most important antibiotics, colistin, has been detected in sewer water in Georgia.

88. Wastewater Helps Decipher Popularity Of Synthetic Drugs 12/8/2021

    Over the years, hundreds of new synthetic drugs that mimic the effects of illegal and legal substances have emerged.

89. Tulane Researcher Part Of $1.24M EPA Grant To Study Viruses In Wastewater 12/2/2021

    As more extreme weather causes water to become scarcer in regions due to drought, scientists are exploring ways to recycle wastewater for irrigation and other non-potable uses.

90. Houston Health Department Testing City Wastewater For Omicron Variant 11/30/2021

    The Houston Health Department is now testing the city’s wastewater for the Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant of the virus that causes COVID-19.