Project description
Innovative diagnostic solution to prevent foodborne diseases
Hundreds of millions of people in the world suffer from foodborne diseases each year; therefore, early routine tests to detect food pathogens are needed. Portuguese company Biomode is developing specialised tests to detect food pathogens based on peptide nucleic acid fluorescence in situ hybridisation (PNA-FISH). This approach will provide a fast, accurate and cost-efficient solution for detecting pathogens in a broad range of food samples. Additionally, the PNA-FISH technology could be applied to detect microorganisms in environmental and clinical samples. The EU-funded Biomode project will evaluate the market readiness of the new technology assessing the feasibility of developing an integrated microfluidics system.
Objective
Over 23 million people in the Europe get ill from unsafe food every year, resulting in 5,000 deaths. The majority of foodborne diseases are diarrheal diseases including an estimated 5 million cases of campylobacteriosis annually.
We have developed the Biomode Probe4@ solutions based on PNA-FISH technology. The Probe4@ products are cost-efficient, rapid and accurate molecular diagnostic tests based on Peptide Nucleic Acid Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (PNA-FISH) technology for the identification of pathogens in food safety, environmental and clinical applications.
Biomode is an innovative company where the core activities are focused on R&D and the commercialization of rapid diagnostic kits based on Peptide Nucleic Acid FISH technology for microbial detection in food and clinical samples. The company focus is to develop and certify its products by internationally recognized organizations such as AOAC. Currently our products Probe4Cronobacter®, Probe4Monocytogenes® and Probe4Salmonella® have already obtained the certification mark by AOAC. In the healthcare market, our product Probe4Pylori® has recently obtained the CE mark.
The EFSA has estimated that the overall economic burden of human salmonellosis could be as high as €3 billion a year. By preventing Salmonella to even to get into the retail system, early routine tests are necessary. But those will only be integrated if they are cost effective and easy to use such as the Biomode kits.
Our objective is to leverage the diagnostic possibilities of PNA-FISH for all its applications in food safety, clinical and environmental fields, thereby expanding the current possibilities of molecular analysis. We are convinced that the fast, accurate, low-cost and user-friendly diagnostic of certain pathogens through Biomode’s Probe4@ will help decision makers act quickly, thereby saving lives, pain, mistakes and even preventing epidemics.
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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4700 Braga
Portugal
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