FREDsense and Ginkgo Bioworks to develop water quality biosensors

FREDsense will leverage Ginkgo’s strain development platform capabilities to develop advanced biosensors capable of detecting harmful molecules and toxins in any water source

FREDsense Technologies Corp and Ginkgo Bioworks have announced a partnership to build biosensors for water quality monitoring and detection. Through this partnership, Ginkgo seeks to build four distinct microbial strain biosensors, compatible with FREDsense’s field-ready hardware for remote water quality monitoring applications.

Water quality has become a growing environmental and public health concern, increasing the demand for scalable monitoring and testing systems. With conventional water quality tests, transporting samples to labs for chemical analysis can lead to lengthy delays in reporting. FREDsense builds portable solutions to efficiently assess the chemicals in the water at the source, allowing for rapid modification of water treatment processes in real-time without the need for external lab equipment.

The biosensors in development by Ginkgo aim to enable real-time field detection of harmful molecules, and may be used to generate solutions for groundwater and industrial water management systems.