Secssing.com provides a free service for DNA analysis and knowledge of the risk of infection with the emerging coronavirus (Covid-19), as anyone can upload an electronic copy of their genetic code to the site, and within five minutes will receive a report explaining the possibility of a fatal infection With the virus.
"The person may look healthy and the probability of his death is low at the non-genetic level if he is infected with the emerging coronavirus, but we know by analyzing his genes that infection with this," Brandon Colby told CEO of the Future Observatory of the Dubai Future Foundation. The virus will be dangerous. ”
One of the biggest challenges we face in treating people with the emerging coronavirus (Covid-19) is identifying people who are most vulnerable and difficult to treat.
Colby aims to personalize the emerging coronavirus infection test, and to provide a report based on the individual genetic code, which may provide a warning to people who appear to be in good health but who are at greater risk. Colby hopes that these reports will persuade people who have high genetic risk factors to be more careful, and that they tend to receive available treatments immediately if they feel symptoms of the disease. Colby told the Future Observatory: “A person may have genes that raise the risk of contracting the virus, This shows the importance of the report we are issuing. ”
Colby said: «This research is still preliminary, and is based on primary genetic associations, even before this disease turned into a pandemic, we conducted research and put its results in an experimental formula, but the crisis caused by the spread of this virus forced us to rely on these preliminary data, and it is necessary That people clearly understand that we are using the information currently available to be useful to them in times of need. ”
The company's use of current studies on the SARS virus may lead to the company's tool becoming more powerful, but genetics experts have not been fully convinced of the idea of testing a genetic procedure for the risk of emerging coronavirus through the Internet, said Professor Shomita Dasgupta of Genetics. For the site of the “Observatory of the Future”: “I see that what is important in this test is that genetic and environmental factors contribute to the susceptibility of the individual to the virus, as in other pathogens, and excluding these factors cannot lead to complete protection from infection, but the combination of health measures Public and neighborhood medical research Yeh about the genetic risk factors may help us out of this crisis ».
Genes alone cannot give an overview of the risk of infection, so the site uses non-genetic risk factors, such as age, smoking habits, and current medical conditions.
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Seksinging.com's CEO, Brandon Colby, hopes that the site’s reports will encourage people to better protect themselves, even if these reports are based on preliminary research findings, and could change as the virus continues to spread. Colby said: “It may A person in his thirties who does not have any health conditions believes that he is isolated from infection with the virus, but his opinion will change if he sees his genetic report.