Public health is a key component of a thriving community. A new way to gauge illnesses could alert healthcare providers even ...

LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Siena College is participating in a student initiated wastewater testing program. School officials say the program can pinpoint positive cases of the coronavirus ...

BERKELEY (CBS SF) -- A team of scientists from the University of California, Berkeley launched a pop-up lab this month to test wastewater from throughout the Bay Area for the novel coronavirus, the ...

San Diego County health officials have launched a new tool to monitor the spread of disease by testing local wastewater for ...

At the Hampton Roads Sanitation District’s treatment plants, officials have several tried-and-true methods to clean the wastewater. They mix ozone and hydrogen peroxide to kill off a certain chemical, ...

The state’s top wastewater agency is banking on MIT smarts to help catch a possible second wave of the coronavirus before people even appear sick. A Cambridge laboratory has signed a $200,000 contract ...

San Diego County's public health lab Wednesday began in- house wastewater testing for diseases circulating through the community, with the results published on an online public dashboard.

Anna Yakos, a clinical laboratory analyst at the State Hygienic Laboratory in Coralville, performs an extraction from a specimen as a part of the influenza testing process. (Photo courtesy of the ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- In a BioSafety Level 2 lab at U.C. Berkeley, scientists spend all day looking at wastewater. At first read, it may sound gross but it is the work of a lifetime for scientists ...