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DNA Bar Coding Finds Mislabeled Sushi
Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss, who graduated this year from the Trinity School in Manhattan, took on a freelance science project to check 60 samples of seafood using a simplified genetic fingerprinting technique called DNA Bar Coding to see whether the fish New Yorkers buy is what they think they are getting, and found that one-fourth of the fish samples with identifiable DNA were mislabeled: A piece of sushi sold as the luxury treat white tuna turned out to be Mozambique tilapia, a much cheaper fish that is often raised by farming. Roe supposedly from flying fish was actually from smelt." (More below.)
"Seven of nine samples that were called red snapper were mislabeled, and they turned out to be anything from Atlantic cod to Acadian redfish, an endangered species. The project began over dinner with Stoeckle's father, a scientist and early proponent of the use of DNA bar codings. Instead of sequencing the entire genome, bar coders examine a single gene. Dr. Stoeckle said he was excited to see the technology used in a new way and compared the technique to GPS. 'The smaller and cheaper you make something,' he said, 'the more uses it has.'"
...can you check the DNA in that? I hope it's not anyone I know.
Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
Doesn't cooking destroy DNA?
This article is about sushi. He's eating his burrito raw.
Confucius say "Man who check fish too closely never get bone in freelay."
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Kuni: Okay, Weaver, listen carefully. You can hold on to your red snapper...
Kuni: ...or you can go for what's in the box that Hiro-San is bringing down the aisle right now! What's it gonna be?
Phyllis Weaver: I'll take the box. The box!
Kuni: You took the box? Let's see what's in the box!
Kuni: Nothing! Absolutely nothing! STUPID! You're so STU-PIIIIIIIIIIID!
Roe supposedly from flying fish was actually from smelt.
Of course, the roe from flying fish are from smelt; they're the ones that are being dive-bombed!
Seven of nine samples...
Leave it to the Slashdot crowd to put a Star Trek reference in a story about seafood.
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
Now they're performing deep packet inspection on our sushi. If we eat the wrong kind of fish, do we get throttled?
When someone says, "Any fool can see
We secretly replaced this group's sushi with Folger's crystals. Let's see if they notice...
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
You could also tell by the way it smelt.
For all intensive purposes, he could of meant it the way it was typed.
woosh