Drink beer to avoid cancer
The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) synthetic biology competition held last week in Cambridge, Massachusetts is based on ‘a standard toolkit of DNA building blocks — think genetic LEGO blocks — to create living organisms that do odd things.’ One of these teams, the ‘BiOWLogists’ from Rice University, unveiled an anticancer beer, dubbed ‘BioBeer.’ It will contain resveratrol, ‘a chemical in wine that’s been shown to reduce cancer and heart disease in lab animals.’ The team took second place for best presentation.
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