Testing wastewater samples is one of the primary methods for assessing infectious disease prevalence in populations. By collecting and testing samples from various water treatment plants, scientists ...

There is an arm of science focused on revealing insights about human behavior and public health by analyzing the contents of our sewage. Known as wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), this technology ...

Researchers have developed a rapid, ultrasensitive test using a paper-based electrochemical sensor that can detect the presence of the virus in less than five minutes. It uses a graphene biosensor and ...

An inexpensive paper sensor along with a smartphone-based reader can rapidly provide information on a person's personal smoke exposure during wildfire season. (Nanowerk News) An inexpensive paper ...

Patches seem to be all the rage these days. There are birth control patches, nicotine patches, and transdermal medicinal patches, just to name a few. Now, a team of researchers led by Beomjoon Kim at ...

The COVID-19 pandemic introduced everyone to the world of PCR tests and lateral flow tests but since then, a different type of testing has quietly been gaining momentum. Wastewater testing is a ...

Researchers have developed an innovative new method for identifying biomarkers in wastewater using origami-paper sensors, enabling the tracking of infectious diseases using the camera in a mobile ...

A carbon dioxide sensor developed by physicists at the University of Alberta can be manufactured on a mere piece of paper. The simplicity of this environmental innovation has myriad potential uses - ...

JDI or Japan Display, Inc. is perhaps best known for making, as its name implies, display panels, many of which end up on smartphones. It does, however, also dabble in technologies only related to ...