Ammonia can be biologically removed from wastewater by ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and archaea (AOA) that convert ammonia to nitrite.

Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) is the primary energy carrier in all living organisms on earth.  Microorganisms capture and store energy metabolized from food and light sources in the form of ATP.

Microbial metalworking fluids can reduce friction, tool wear, and improve surface finish compared to water-based fluids.

Luminultra’s patented 2nd Generation ATP® kit has been a gamechanger for microbial testing for industry since it was first introduced in 2003.

Atlantic Business Magazine named CEO of Luminultra Technologies, Pat Whalen, to the 2020 Top 50 CEOs list for leadership, business growth.

Do you remember the news reports about the large oil spill in Prudhoe Bay that occurred back in 2006? On March 2nd, 2006, it was discovered that a BP-owned transit line supplying the trans-Alaska pipeline was leaking.

Since many operators like to have results reported in a format that is familiar to them, it is possible to convert the gene copies/mL obtained from a qPCR reaction into an approximate cells/mL which is a calculation based on the average amount of gene copies per organism determined from literature investigations.

For over a century, lab technicians for water treatment facilities have turned to culturable plate counts as their main weapon in quantifying the bacterial count for a system.

Compared to chlorine, which destroys the cell membrane, UV treatment is a physical process where UV light mutates and/or degrades DNA and RNA in bacterial and viral cells.

Legionella is the genus of bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease, a potentially fatal form of pneumonia (lung infection), and the less severe, flu-like Pontiac fever, named for the Michigan town where it was first described.