Sage-N Research has won an exclusive license agreement with the US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) to commercialise a platform for identifying pathogenic microorganisms in fluid media.
This license allows the integration of ECBC's Agents of Biological Organs Identification (ABOID) system into the company's existing Sorcerer proteomics platform, which, according to Sage-N Research, will enable rapid and cost-effective detection and identification of microorganisms.
Currently, the ABOID system can identify 4,500 different bacteria, viruses and fungi.
The new platform will utilise the Computational Power of Sage-N Research's Sorcerer and Mass Spectrometry based Proteomics to identify bacteria, viruses, fungi and other cellular material without the need for growing cultures, or any prior knowledge about them.
Sage-N Research claims that Proteomics is a rapidly emerging field and will play a key role in Life Science and Medical Research over the next five years.
