ClearLabs.com – Sequencing DNA in Food

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The Human Genome Project took 13 years and cost 3 billion dollars. That was for just one human genome. Now the cost of DNA-sequencing has fallen dramatically. You can do human genetic testing for under a thousand dollars a genome today. And now next-gen DNA-sequencing technology has become economical enough to apply in different contexts.
Take ClearLabs.com, a Silicon Valley tech company that's built a DNA-sequencing platform for food. It's expensive to mess up food, for a manufacturer. "The average food safety recall averages around ten million an incident, but can climb much higher," says ClearLabs co-founder Mahni Ghorashi. Besides the cost to business, which totals 55 million a year, there's also the cost to human life, with 3,000 deaths from food-bourne illnesses yearly. With the tech ClearLabs is developing, all this can be prevented.
Listen to learn more about ClearLabs, and the application of DNA-sequencing to the food industry. Be sure to subscribe, review, and if you can, consider donating a few BitCoins to the cause.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.9	Future Technologies always to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.6	Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.
0:17.7	We're just around the corner.
0:19.7	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:22.0	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:25.7	Hi, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech podcast. My guest today is Mani Garashi,
0:31.1	co-founder at Clear Labs.com. Mani, how you doing?
0:35.3	I'm doing great, Richard. How are you?
0:37.7	Good. Thanks for coming on. I appreciate it. If you would, how you doing? I'm doing great, Richard. How are you? Good.
0:38.4	Thanks for coming on.
0:39.4	I appreciate it.
0:44.4	If you would, can you tell listeners what you do with Clear Labs and what's the goal of the company?
0:45.2	You bet.
0:46.3	Firstly, thank you so much for having me.
0:49.0	It's a pleasure to be here with you on this podcast.
0:53.0	And I am one of the co-founders of Clear Labs, which is a Silicon
0:56.8	Valley technology company that's built a DNA sequencing platform for the food industry to help
1:04.4	essentially through DNA testing to reduce the risk of food safety recalls and outbreaks and build a, you know,
1:15.3	a stronger and safer food supply. So you, you look at the, the DNA of the food that a company
1:21.7	has, you know, grown or harvested or produced or created to make sure that it doesn't have issues?
1:28.9	Can you clarify?
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