COVID-19 showed us how useful monitoring wastewater can be. But the genetic material in our wastewater, namely DNA and RNA, is a treasure trove of other useful information. It reveals the presence of ...

A new study analyzing wastewater samples from several aged care and retirement homes in Adelaide, has uncovered worrying signs of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in at least one facility. The study has ...

Human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) detection in wastewater offers a novel approach to monitor the virus in communities. Baylor College of Medicine researchers and colleagues at collaborating ...

BackgroundWastewater is no longer regarded only as a stream to be treated, but increasingly as a resource from which energy, nutrients, water, and ...

An international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology has uncovered a hidden world of tiny partnerships thriving in wastewater treatment plants worldwide. The ...

AMR occurs when disease-causing bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites (pathogens) are no longer affected by the medicines that have been developed to target them. Drug-resistant pathogens can cause ...

Plastic pollution is everywhere, and a good amount of it is composed of polyethylene terephthalate (PET, ♳). This polymer is used to make bottles, containers and even clothing. Now, researchers report ...

Wastewater surveillance is an emerging science that can be a critical public health tool for infectious disease surveillance. However, it is currently limited by a lack of standardized methods, ...

Wastewater surveillance allows researchers to track disease occurrence at a population level, informing health officials about disease trends in communities and potentially enabling earlier public ...

Looming funding cuts for one of America's major disease surveillance programs could threaten public health responses experts say.

Doha: Researchers at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) have developed an innovative decentralised wastewater treatment ...

COVID-19 showed us how useful monitoring wastewater can be. But the genetic material in our wastewater, namely DNA and RNA, is a treasure trove of other useful information. It reveals the presence of ...