ESR expands sampling for COVID-19 in wastewater
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ESR is progressing its research to detect COVID-19 in wastewater with an eight-week sampling pilot at sites throughout New Zealand.
With support from MBIE’s Covid-19...
Developing solutions for portable, in-the-field genomics sequencing
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There are many infrastructure challenges in the field of bioinformatics due to the scale of the data that is produced.
The Institute of Environmental...
ESR’s Ryan Willoughby wins public relations award
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ESR’s Ryan Willoughby wins big at public relations awards
ESR Senior Communications Advisor, Ryan Willoughby is the 2021 PRINZ Young PR Practitioner of the...
Wastewater results from 111 sites recorded
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ESR’s most recent report of the results of wastewater samples(external link) taken from 111 sites for the week ending 6 November shows the...
ESR Planting Day a growing success
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Staff from ESR’s Kenepuru Science Centre north of Wellington called a spade a spade last week as they came together and planted 300...
Wastewater results highlight new detections
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The wastewater of locations throughout Aotearoa New Zealand was tested over the week ending 22 January and highlighted new detections of the virus...
ESR Maori Impact intern moves from biowaste tikanga research to microplastics
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After a 10-week ESR Māori Impact internship at the start of the year looking at transforming biowaste from tapu (restricted) to noa (free...
ESR finds decrease in syphilis, gonorrhoea and chlamydia
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Newly released data from ESR shows the number of reported cases of syphilis, gonorrhoea and chlamydia dropped in the first half of 2020.
ESR...
ESR celebrates Liley Medal win for collaborative COVID-19 research team led by Dr Sarah...
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Genomic testing underway to find links between the new cases and others
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Genomic testing is underway to find links between the new case and others.
ESR, New Zealand’s Crown Research Institute, is looking for potential links...
ESR welcome new directors | ESR
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The Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) has welcomed the appointment of three new directors to its board.
Experienced directors Dr Matt Glenn,...
Scientists use Google searches, HealthLine and truancy to detect disease outbreaks
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A new ESR study has found that internet searches, Healthline calls and school absenteeism data could alert health officials to a disease outbreak...
