Speeding vaccines to the market means finding ways to grow almost anything in a hurry, and one Baltimore firm is positioned to help that effort.

Fluorometrix develops light-based probes that can measure pH, dissolved oxygen, carbon dioxide and other conditions that affect the growth of microbes without interfering with their growing environment. “You need technology that will allow you to culture cells under a variety of different conditions and see which conditions are most effective,” said Govind Rao, professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and developer of the fluorescent technology.

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