Kat Yetka (left) pours the wastewater sample over a filter (right), negatively-charged to better capture COVID virus particles, at a Hampton Road Sanitation District lab in Virginia Beach, Va.

Here’s how a scrappy team of scientists, public health experts and plumbers is embracing wastewater surveillance as the future of disease tracking.

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 university said ...

Dr. Kenny Beckman with the University of Minnesota Genomics center says wastewater sampling is a good way to collect viral data from the entire population ...

Oregon State University scientists hope that detecting the virus in wastewater can serve as an early alert for local authorities to consider issuing warnings, increasing precautions or instituting ...

Sewage Sampling Robots Speed SARS-CoV-2 Detection An automated wastewater monitoring technique could enable researchers to predict outbreaks of the virus up to a week in advance.

Since 2020, UB researchers, including students, have been testing wastewater for RNA fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 as part of a program to monitor outbreaks in Western New York.

For grab sampling, we take a small sample as it is flowing into the manhole. Any sample of water as it flows from a business’ ...

Since 2020, UB researchers, including students, have been testing wastewater for RNA fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 as part of a program to monitor outbreaks in Western New York.

The city is participating in a study of wastewater facilities nationwide to better understand the spread of COVID-19 and inform future pandemic response.