Better beer: College team creating anticancer brew

Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 16:07 in Biology & Nature

College students often spend their free time thinking about beer, but a group of Rice University students are taking it to the next level. They're using genetic engineering to create beer that contains resveratrol, a chemical in wine that's been shown to reduce cancer and heart disease in lab animals.

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