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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Fast Facts
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Team name
the BiOWLogists
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Students mostly under legal drinking age
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FDA approval required before BioBeer commercially available
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Altered genes created with BioBricks
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Yeast donated by Saint Arnold Brewing Company
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Resveratrol occurs naturally in red wine
