BiOptic Inc., Giant Bio Technology Inc. and NTOU have jointly publised a journal article on MDPI
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According to the 2018 market survey report, the global farmed shrimp market is about 28 billion U.S. dollars. Due to the globalization and high-density of aquaculture industry, the spread of diseases has accelerated. Among them, shrimp infectious diseases will outbreak every few years, including white Spot disease (WSD), acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND), and hepatopancreatic microsporidia (HPM), which reduce the industry profit with an estimated $7.8 billion annually.
In Taiwan, the domestic shrimp market once accounted for as high as 70%. However, due to the careless quarantine policy of imported shrimp, it caused a pandemic of infectious diseases. The domestic shrimp farmers were plagued by viruses, and now the proportion of domestic shrimp is only 30% remaining.
BiOptic Inc., Giant Bio Technology Inc. and National Taiwan Ocean University jointly published a journal article, which was reviewed and released by MDPI a few days ago. The reagent developer used Direct PCR reagents combined with the exclusive capillary electrophoresis technology of BiOptic Inc. to build a low-professional, high-sensitivity feature. The developed shrimp pathogen detection system enables shrimp farmers to conduct real-time and on-site detection. This combination also shortens the overall detection time by more than 58.2%. In addition to the advantages of on-site detection, this system has the potential to become a suitable tool for disease diagnosis, epidemiology, and pathology research in the aquaculture industry in the future.
This cooperation case is the best example of the combination of detection reagent development and BiOptic’s open platform. In the future, the development of reagents in the fields of agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry, genetic testing or pathogen detection can be based on this example to develop products that are closer to market demand in terms of price and technical needs.