#genetic database

क्या दुनिया को भेजी गईं कोरोना टेस्ट किट से ग्लोबल DNA डेटाबेस बना रहा है चीन?

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नई दिल्ली:चीन के वुहान (Wuhan) से निकले कोरोना वायरस (Coronavirus) ने पूरी दुनिया में कोहराम मचा दिया है और चीन पूरी दुनिया को कोरोना वायरस से लड़ने में मदद करने के दावे कर रहा है, जिस  पर वो हमेशा ही असफल साबित हुआ है. पहले चीन द्वारा दनियाभर को भेजी गई कोरोना वायरस टेस्ट किट (Test Kits) और चिकित्सा आपूर्ति का खराब पाया जाना, और अब यह कहा जा रहा है कि ये टेस्ट किट चीन को जेनेटिक डेटा…

New Post has been published on http://www.newsnish.com/technology/science/a-genetic-database-will-identify-whats-really-in-our-food/

A Genetic Database Will Identify What’s Really In Our Food

It’s hard to know what’s in your food. While some people find it scary to read the labels on processed foods, it’s scarier to know that these labels can sometimes be inaccurate, if an unrecorded ingredient was added somewhere in the manufacturing process. Startup Clear Labs wants to use genetic analysis change that; yesterday the company announced that it is rolling out a database of the genetic signatures of food, called Clear View.

“The idea was to bring a new kind of transparency to the food industry,” says Mahni Ghorashi, the Chief Marketing Officer and co-founder of Clear Labs. Since the company’s inception in 2014, its researchers have been conducting genetic sequencing on a huge range of food products and compiling them into a database. Now that the company has launched, it plans to make the database available to food manufacturers so they can better understand the raw ingredients that go into their products, and help alert retailers selling that food if labels are inaccurate or if the food is contaminated.

If a retailer or manufacturer wants to know more about a particular food, the company can ship a sample to Clear Labs or an associated third-party lab, where researchers perform next-generation sequencing on the sample. The researchers sequence all the DNA found in the sample and compare them to what’s in the database, which contains information from the company’s previous tests and other open source genetic databases through the NIH. That could help companies identify gluten in foods that are labeled gluten-free, for example, or even disease-causing bacteria before the product even reaches a customer.

Say, for example, you’re the purveyor of a health food store and you suspect that the cilantro you’re thinking of selling might be a genetically modified strain. Your customers would probably want to know that. So you send a sample to Clear Labs, which compares the sample’s DNA to that of the cilantro already in the database. And if the researchers happen to find some E. coli bacteria in the sample, they can warn of you of that, too, so that you can pull it from the shelves before anyone gets sick.