Nov 12 2008Finally, Some Research I Can Get Behind -- And Drink!: Students Aim To Help Prevent Cancer With Delicious, Refreshing Beer
Students at Rice University are using genetic engineering to develop a beer that contains resveratrol and may help prevent cancer.
BioBeer, as it's called, has three genes spliced into special brewer's yeast that produce resveratrol, the chemical in red wine that is thought to protect against diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's and other age-related conditions.The only problem, from the students' perspective, is that many of them aren't old enough to legally consume their creation.
Ha -- too young to drink! Maybe you could ask some seniors to go buy you a six-pack of Zima. Just kidding. But yes, that's a picture of my brother and I playing 24-hands a couple weekends ago. We would have played with 40's but my brother (on the left) weighs 135 pounds and 80 ounces of malt liquor would probably kill him. So, yeah, next time. But cheers to being cancer free! And also, somebody help get this tape off my hands.
'Bio-Beer' Designed to Extend Life [discovery]
Thanks to Phil and Pat, who actually play keg hands because they're that hardcore.
Reader Comments
1. LSDiesel - November 12, 2008 12:06 PM
Haha Yes! I finally have something to drink while smoking my vitamin-enriched cigarettes!
2. Crowley - November 12, 2008 12:06 PM
firsty
3. jedens - November 12, 2008 12:13 PM
i took this picture!!
4. McGloin - November 12, 2008 12:14 PM
[racist bullshit deleted]
You've really done it this time! Society has gone past the point of no return.
Were heading for rock bottom and 'Finally, Some Research I Can Get Behind -- And Drink: Students Aim To Help Prevent Cancer With Delicious, Refreshing Beer' is just the start of this rapid decline into hell.
Way to go America, we had a good thing going once.
5. Gizmoduck - November 12, 2008 12:19 PM
oh good
bill paxton is not assumed
6. Jo Mama - November 12, 2008 12:28 PM
Its all fun and games until someone has to take a leak.
7. Moose Knuckle - November 12, 2008 12:37 PM
Does the resveratrol transfer to my semen? 'Cause my girlfriend doesn't drink beer and she's a bit of a hypochondriac, so maybe she can get daily dose of resveratrol another way? Please say yes.
pew
8. Douche McAllister - November 12, 2008 12:37 PM
@1
Do those smokes come in the Flintstones vitamin flavors? Cuz if they do, I'm gonna have to take it up to two packs a day!
9. CK TheJunction - November 12, 2008 12:48 PM
Lol some students have too much time and weed...
10. LSDiesel - November 12, 2008 12:50 PM
@8, Yeah, they do! Just arrived yesterday actually!
@9, You're implying that you can have too much weed?
11. Pink - November 12, 2008 12:56 PM
You are your brother are the two sexiest men I've efver seen....why don't u buy some touch pillows and holla!
12. Ash - November 12, 2008 1:15 PM
Are they needing a test subject for this product. I totally offer my testing services.
13. Ash - November 12, 2008 1:17 PM
Are they needing a test subject for this product. I totally would offer my testing services.
14. photoshop-police - November 12, 2008 1:23 PM
on a side note, Zima is now a collector's item:
MillerCoors Discontinues Zima
Oct 21, 2008
-By Kenneth Hein, Brandweek
NEW YORK MillerCoors announced this week that the malternative beverage known as Zima, introduced by Coors Brewing in 1992, would be discontinued.
The company expects to ship its last Zima orders sometime in December as distributors deplete current inventories on a first come, first serve basis. Production of the drink ceased on Oct. 10.
Drink the citrus-like malt beverage while you still can... or don't, because people can make vodka and tonic on their own, thank you very much.
15. photoshop-police - November 12, 2008 1:25 PM
and also... this photo is totally real. ;-)
16. boredom - November 12, 2008 2:46 PM
so this is awesome and I'm all in as long as it doesn't taste like coors/miller/or bud, I mean shit.
Where's Dairy on this one?
17. Thumperchica - November 12, 2008 2:52 PM
LEGO my beer!!!!!
18. Daisy - November 12, 2008 3:11 PM
FAKE!!!
This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell its fake, because the shadows are all wrong.
This looks like the scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max told Baja how much he loved beer, and extolled it's virtues to her.
19. K1s3I - November 12, 2008 3:53 PM
@18 You're a fake, your face is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell because all the shadows are wrong.
Looks like a scene from never back down though.
20. Demosthenes - November 12, 2008 4:04 PM
i go to rice, glad to see our school getting a shout on Geekologie!
and
ps.
@9 - not too much time or too much weed, just a nerdy asian who'se decided to focus his skills on whats important in life.
and @10 - you can NEVER have too much weed. especially when you go to school with all nerdy asians.
21. LSDiesel - November 12, 2008 4:08 PM
@20, Amen. Hurray for Weed! And hurray for nerdy asians! Without them, we wouldn't have anyone to play violins, or to build useless robots.
22. rainbowcinderellageek - November 13, 2008 7:38 AM
Why not make something worth while? Like a cure for cancer 0.o
Stupid kids!!
23. DantheMan - November 13, 2008 11:23 AM
GO OWLS!!!!
24. Blopit - November 26, 2008 9:18 PM
a cure for cancer? thats pointless, famine is a problem, thats why i created edible cardboard!
25. marilliondillion - December 20, 2008 2:13 AM
most serious side effect: it will turn you into pacman. and the skin around your hands will start to exude a weird duct-tape like substance.