Culture Club: Mapping the microbiome will protect us from bad bacteria
Channel: IBM Research
Date: 2019-02-11

Within five years, food safety inspectors around the world will gain a new superpower: the ability to use millions of microbes to protect what we eat. These microbes—some healthy for human consumption, others not—are regularly introduced into foods at farms, factories, and grocery stores. Thanks to a new technique that enables us to analyze their genetic make-up cost effectively, microbes will tell us a lot about the safety of what we consume.  ibm.co/IBM5in5