BioBeer

Categories: Internet Zeitgeist | Beer | Biology
    • Team name: the BiOWLogists
    • Students mostly under legal drinking age
    • FDA approval required before BioBeer commercially available
    • Altered genes created with BioBricks
    • Yeast donated by Saint Arnold Brewing Company
    • Resveratrol occurs naturally in red wine
  • 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

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