Medical research
Sewer sleuthing, air vacuuming scientists keep tabs on COVID-19
David O'Connor believes poop can tell you a lot about yourself and those around you—and there's science to back him up.
Nov 7, 2022
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Medical research
Wastewater viral loads can provide advance warning of COVID-19 outbreaks
Scientists show that there is a close association between clinical cases of COVID-19 and viral loads in wastewater, with the viral loads picking up to two days before the cases were detected.
Aug 22, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Awash in potential: Wastewater provides early detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus
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 wastewater sequencing ...
Jul 7, 2022
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SMART breakthrough in detection of SARS-CoV-2 variant in wastewater
Researchers from the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, alongside collaborators from ...
Jul 21, 2021
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Researchers urge a closer examination of sunlight's efficacy in inactivating the SARS-CoV-2 virus
A year ago scientists everywhere were scrambling to get their minds around the SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus that caused the pandemic from which we are only now beginning to emerge. The world clung to every new development, ...
Mar 31, 2021
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Health
Sewage study shows US, Netherlands and Australia like to party hard
The Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand and the United States are consuming the highest amounts of designer 'party' drugs, according to wastewater samples taken from eight countries over the New Year period.
Feb 22, 2021
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Wastewater predicts COVID-19 outbreaks days before diagnostic testing
By taking daily samples from the New Haven-area wastewater treatment plant, researchers have been able to track the progression of COVID-19 up to seven days before the same pattern is reported by compiled testing data from ...
Sep 21, 2020
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Could COVID-19 in wastewater be infectious?
Wastewater containing coronaviruses may be a serious threat, according to a new, global study led by researchers from the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU).
Aug 24, 2020
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Study suggests wastewater at treatment plants can be used as a barometer for COVID-19 infection rates
A team of researchers at Yale University (with assistance from the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station) has found early signs that testing wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 virus RNA can be used to gauge early COVID-19 ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Describing certain foods in a foreign language reduces aversion
Restaurateurs apparently know what they're doing when they offer "escargot" on a menu rather than "snails." New research shows that people are more willing to eat foods that they find disgusting if those foods are presented ...
Feb 2, 2018
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