Promega announced recently that it has launched a wastewater testing kit that pairs its Maxwell HT chemistry with Ceres Nanosciences’ Nanotrap particles, an established technology for capturing and concentrating low-abundance analytes such as viral particles.

“Ceres has a technology that enables concentration of microbes from wastewater that is unique to the market,” Promega Field Support Scientist Brandon Krueger said in a statement. “It worked quite well for Promega and Ceres to join together to make this a better process overall for wastewater testing labs.”

The kit joins a growing Promega portfolio of technologies used for wastewater-based epidemiology. It is designed to be implemented on a variety of automated liquid handlers.