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The D³ Array is expanding into the clinical and agricultural spaces, providing low-cost multiplex testing.

In this innovation update, Senior Scientist Austin Rueda introduces Quant^X Bacterial from PathogenDx. Quant^X Bacterial delivers the flexibility that labs need to conform to each state’s specific cannabis testing rules and regulations, quantify four broad class indicators, and deliver species-specific detection all within a single test. 

By Susan Evans

What if you could create a testing environment that enhances the ability for a clinical sample, such as a bacterium responsible for an infection, to find and bind to a molecular detection probe? If you could, you would have the potential to significantly increase the testing speed, improving patient outcome and care, while also increasing the accuracy and sensitivity of the laboratory test.

By Austin Rueda

Cannabis spp. is host to many bacterial pathogens of immediate concern to public health and safety. These bacterial pathogens can be broken down into categories of specific interest such as Total Aerobic Bacteria, Bile Tolerant Gram-Negative Bacteria, Total Enterobacteriaceae, and Total Coliform Bacteria.

At PathogenDx, we never stop innovating ways to drive product safety from harmful pathogens while delivering cost-savings for labs on the front lines of regulatory testing. To separate yourself from your competition in Cannabis testing, you must offer solutions that are both highly accurate, but also operationally efficient, to create sustainable margins.

By Shaun Stice, PhD

While most virus infections in plants may be of a single strain, it is possible for multiple viruses to infect the same plant. Plant virus co-infections can have severely negative outcomes for the infected plant depending on the viruses involved in the co-infection.

By Rick Eggers and Dr. Mike Hogan

A Little Variant History.

SARS-CoV-2 is a simple virus, which presents a single protein (Spike) on its surface. Thus, Spike serves as a primary point of interaction between the virus and human cells and between the virus and the human immune system.

By Shaun Stice, PhD

Cannabis growers today face a pathogen threat to their crop known as Hop Latent Viroid. What is Hop Latent Viroid and what do you need to know about the viroid causing $4 Billion in Cannabis crop losses annually?

By Shaun Stice, PhD

Today, microbial threats wipe out as much as 30% of potential Cannabis and Hemp crop yield, a risk to grows that can’t be ignored. PhytoX from PathogenDx let’s labs help growers with quicker results, and take fast action to remove infected plants before viruses spread and impact potency and growth. The easy-to-use RT-PCR microarray assay detects nine plant viruses driving Cannabis, Hemp, and other agriculture yield losses, all in a single test.