Milk protein profiling powered by multiplexed single molecule assay

该项目旨在开发一种新型设备，包括先进的单分子成像、微流体和免疫分析技术，用于定量牛奶蛋白变异。牛奶质量是乳品业的核心，牛奶中蛋白质的变化会影响其市场价值。目前的乳蛋白检测技术还不能很好地应用于牛奶生产质量控制。该项目旨在生产一种设备，供牛奶生产商和农场使用，在一小时内进行一次测试，以高灵敏度分析蛋白质变异，并筛选不需要的蛋白质污染。该平台还具有检测其他复杂和低含量分析物的巨大潜力。它建立在纳米粒子的创新和最近的工业合作之上。

This project aims to develop a novel device, comprising advanced single molecule imaging, microfluidics and immunoassay technologies, for quantification of milk protein variants. Milk quality is central to dairying and variants of proteins in milk affect its market value. No current milk protein detection technologies are readily applied in milk production quality control. This project aims to produce a device that can be used by milk producers and farms to profile protein variants with high sensitivity in a single test in an hour and screen unwanted protein contamination. The platform also has great potential for detecting other complex and low content analytes. It builds on innovations in nanoparticles and recent industry collaboration.