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• Students from Rice University are planning to brew a beer from yeast genetically engineered to produce resveratrol, a chemical believed to reduce the chance of heart disease and cancer.

  The effort is to be an entry in International Genetically Engineered Machine, a synthetic biology competition held in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 8, 2008

• Fast Facts

  1. Team name: the BiOWLogists
  2. Students mostly under legal drinking age
  3. FDA approval required before BioBeer commercially available
  4. Altered genes created with BioBricks
  5. Yeast donated by Saint Arnold Brewing Company
  6. Resveratrol occurs naturally in red wine

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