Environmental nucleic acid testing of trough water detects viral signatures linked to livestock health, research found
22 Apr 2026
A newly published paper by the Research Institute for Northern Agriculture (RINA) at Charles Darwin University has demonstrated that simple environmental nucleic acid (eNA) testing of trough water can detect bacterial and viral signatures linked to livestock health, offering a potential new layer of surveillance for the Australian cattle industry.
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