Eremid® Genomic Services is a high complexity CLIA-certified genomics contract research organization, with world-class scientific staff, and cutting-edge genomic instrumentation and automation to create a unique offering to meet the increasing demands for higher data quality, reliability, and accuracy in genomics research.
Bioform solutions has developed a robust assay to monitor the cell health of probiotics, regardless of strains or the matrix. Flow cytometry is a single cell analysis tool. It can enumerate bacteria or yeast, alone or in a mix. It is the only way to enumerate heat killed cells (postbiotics) since they won’t grow. CFUs have been used in the industry for decades due to no extra equipment or knowledge needed, but the data has a 30-50% variability which leads to large questions about its accuracy. It also can only see cells that can grow in a particular media, so mixed strain probiotics can be very problematic. When the cells become stressed out due to processing and packaging, they can become viable but not culturable (VBNC), which means they won’t grow in a CFU assay. Flow cytometry gets around these issues by viewing all of the cells in a product, quickly and accurately with a CV <5%. Flow cytometry takes ~15 minutes whereas the CFU assay takes 3 days. This allows quick decisions to be made as a product is being formulated as well as determining the stability of the products.
Microbiology International specializes in laboratory automation by providing advanced instruments and custom media solutions to the modern laboratory. Our advanced Whitley Workstations provide a strict anaerobic or precisely controlled atmosphere for gut microbiota applications. Whatever your application, we can tailor the Whitley Workstation to your requirements. The WASP Touch spiral plater eliminates the need for serial dilutions, and paired with the ProtoCOL colony counter, automates inoculation and enumeration. Stop by our booth for a demonstration.
Microba is a precision microbiome analysis service company leveraging superior sampling method, high-throughput sequencing, best-in-class profiler, and the most comprehensive genome reference database of cultured and uncultured bacteria. Combined with advanced analytics, AI expertise and biological knowledge, Microba offers end-to-end research support with robust microbiome analysis and data interpretation, enabling product discoveries and exploratory microbiome monitoring. Using its platform, Microba’s ongoing population study also provides the largest catalogue of metagenomes and associated lifestyle metadata for data mining and discovery.
