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 ...

The White House recently endorsed monitoring sewage for evidence of drug use. Critics fear such efforts could violate privacy ...

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 ...

In late summer 2022, it became politically clear that preventive mass testing for SARS-CoV-2 was coming to an end. Neither the high costs nor the intrusion into the private lives of citizens could be ...

Researchers have developed an accurate prediction tool for estimating COVID-19 hospital admissions, using an AI–based system with wastewater sampling. It is possible to accurately predict hospital ...

PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are all over the news. Many of us already realize they pose a health risk to humans and the environment. Manufacturers of PFAS play a huge role in slowing ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has turned sewage into gold. People who are infected with the coronavirus shed the pathogen in their stool. By measuring and sequencing the viral material present in sewage, ...

PLYMOUTH − Some people are furious after learning that the state and the owner of the former Pilgrim power plant are using the same testing lab for wastewater that could be discharged into Cape Cod ...