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 ...

Monitoring pathogens in sewer systems would be ‘major improvement’ on current techniques, new research shows Wastewater sampling could predict new disease outbreaks and the emergence of new variants ...

Writing in the July 7, 2022 online issue of Nature, scientists and physicians at University of California San Diego and Scripps Research, with local and federal public health officials, describe how ...

During four days in mid-July someone – maybe one visitor or two – used the toilet in their vacation rental or motel room in the small Oregon coast community of Yachats. They carried the coronavirus.

Steven Balogh is a virus hunter. “The last two years, it’s been looking 24/7, looking at COVID, SARS-CoV-2,” he says. “Trying to figure out what the numbers are telling us.” Balogh, the principal ...

At the beginning of this month, a team of scientists at UC Berkeley launched a pop-up lab in Hildebrand Hall to test wastewater for the virus that causes COVID-19. The lab, launched Oct. 1, works ...