Toxins and Drugs

Medical cannabis must undergo an identity check in pharmacies, which can be performed using a test kit with a rapid color reaction as an alternative to thin-layer chromatography. Our rapid test provides semi-quantitative information on the THC/CBD content of cannabis samples in just five minutes. The test can be performed with dried cannabis flowers or extracts. The THC/CBD ratio is read from the color of the reaction solution. The test is easy to use and can be performed without prior knowledge or special equipment.

Your Benefit

• Easy to use: Can be performed without prior knowledge, results can be easily read in approx. 5 minutes via color change.
• Semi-quantitative result: THC/CBD ratio with only one test using a small sample quantity (< 10 mg plant sample).
• Variety control: The cannabis variety and its actual THC/CBD yield can be verified with the test.

Our Offer

• We implement a digital readout for more accurate concentration determination.
• We adapt our technology to your preferred test platform.
• We transfer our test format to your analytes.

We synthesize food toxins within a few hours and with a high degree of flexibility. Using cell-free protein synthesis, we produce food toxins that are challenging to express, such as bacterial toxins or emetic toxins. For the synthesis, we use cell lysates from Sf21, HEK, K562, CHO, or E. coli cells. In a comprehensive process tailored to the protein and your application, we can functionally characterize various toxins such as pore-forming toxins, bacterial superantigens, heat-stable toxins, or toxins from enterohaemorrhagic bacteria, and modify them for your applications. Depending on the toxin, we can test the proteins for hemolysis, pore formation, or cellular toxicity. The cell-free protein synthesis platform is high-throughput and ideal for screening various food-associated toxins. Do you need a reference protein for your food toxin analysis or want to develop a new assay? We can quickly and scalably produce the food toxins for your research and work with you to develop a customized assay.

Your Benefit

• Complete overall process: from lysate to synthesis & modification to function testing
• Parallelized synthesis of a wide variety of mutants without GMO production
• Maximum flexibility: each process step can be customized to customer specifications
• Direct use of the synthesized proteins for downstream applications

Our Offer

• We offer cell-free production of your food toxins, from template design to expression to analysis, in Sf21, HEK, K562, CHO, or E. coli lysates within a few hours.
• We offer high-throughput screening for parallel comparison of proteins with subsequent functional characterization (hemolysis, electrophysiology, cellular toxicity) – including data report, QC, and integration into your processes.
• We can modify the food toxins and adapt them for your application – from various mutations to fluorescence-labeled proteins.
• We create the appropriate comparative proteins for your application.

Further information

• Cell-free and cell-based protein synthesis
• Eukariotic Lysates
• Membrane protein synthesis