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Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer
CWmike writes "Ever picked up a cold, frosty beer on a hot summer's day and thought that it simply couldn't get any better? Well, think again. A team of researchers at Rice University in Houston is working on helping Joe Six Pack fight aging and cancer with every swill of beer." Thank you science! Now we just need cigarettes that cure baldness.
I think if Star Trek has taught us anything, it's that baldness is one thing that will never be cured.
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Guinness is full of yummy flavonoids which zap oxidants and help protect against cancer.
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I'd be happy if it just cured my 'roids :)
Beer from Rice University? I hope it doesn't taste like Budweiser.
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"Thank you science! Now we just need cigarettes that cure baldness."
That says it all!
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And they added that giving high doses to invertebrates extends their life spans
So if we remove our spines and drink a lot of this miracle beer, we can increase our lifespans? Tell me where to get this beer!
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> Now we just need cigarettes that cure baldness.
Now, cut it out! God made a few good heads. He had to cover the rest with hair.
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In general, the addition of the resveratrol shouldn't affect the taste of the beer, since the chemical is odorless and tasteless, he said.
So, why not adding it to... water? Because that way you wouldn't get in the newspaper, not even a /. mention?
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Another "Think you like but is bad for you can actually be good for you sorta if you except that you won't like it any more because they'll make it suck" story.
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How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Seems like a plot right out of a Regenesis script.
have NO synthohol, and risk driving and insurance to save another organ or to add live to suffer the misery of having drank too much.
Nahhh, i'll die when i die. Not before, not later. That is the order of things. Unless i find out i am a Vorta named Weyoun attempting to repeatedly defect to some cheeseball planet named Earth, hehehe...
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So the 'liquid lunch' now becomes chemotherapy. Huzzah!
It's already been shown that certain wines, in moderation, can help prevent certain cancers.
As usual, moderation in everything.
If each mistake being made is a new one, then progress is being made.
read this as' "Cancer-Fighting Bear"? I was seriously concerned there for a moment.
"At first, we thought it was just another snake cult."
I bet all those heavy drinkers will now have an excuse to keep drinking as they'll think this cures liver cancer.
Darwinism baby!
Just great, now I gave to take up drinking
Will it cure cancers that were caused by beer in the first place?
"I'm not an alcoholic! I'm fighting cancer"
While I get this is a good way to sneak beneficial nutrients into the diets of people who may otherwise have no interest nor motivation in seeking them, I have one problem with it: Considering alcohol consumption is a risk factor for many types of cancer (and being loaded with empty calories contributing to other health problems), this better be a no/low-alcohol beer or there may be no net benefit to consuming this versus not drinking any beer at all. Ok sure, one standard drink per day has not been shown to be a problem. This is not the behaviour of your typical beer affictionado. There may be a trend to drink more, just because it's perceived to be healthy.
I do think reservatol has huge potential though, I'm sure Ray Kurzweil is already taking it along with his 250 pills a day. I also agree with finding feasible ways to improve the nutrition of existing food products rather than changing the habits of millions of consumers (which requires delivering boot to ass of corporates over their marketing amongst other things).
Yet, why not investigate economic ways to put it in milk or processed grains? Hell why not bundle it along with xylitol and omega 3 in things we eat commonly? We could all but wipe out everything from tooth decay to heart disease, to dementia in one go.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
You can get drinks containing resveratrol from many places, such as Costco.
the cause of and solution to all lifes problems!
In the not too distant future, next Sunday A.D.
As a homebrewer, I'd pay for that. Add in the glowing yeast, and I'd (and a lot of homebrewers) would be pretty happy.
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Perhaps putting it in bread would be a good idea.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Have 20-inch necks, and a proportional waistline, which creates its own health problems.
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Homebrewers laugh at Guinness, as like with most commercial beers, it tastes like water after you taste a well-bodied homebrew.
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Cindy Lou Hensley McCain is branching out her empire into the realm of pharamaceuticals.
The "French paradox" isn't one. The French are healthier because 1) they exercise; and 2) they only eat their famous meals on occasion. Generally, they eat "peasant food"; potatoes, bread, stews, &c. But of course that would be too difficult; no, it must be the wine. Drink, drink, drink! It's good for you!
Here's a hint: the French drink wine because they enjoy it. When I drink beer, it's because I enjoy it. I probably won't enjoy this genetically-engineered "good for you" beer as much, so the whole idea is a non-starter. I could always just eat a pomegranate, and then drink a good beer. And for those who don't like pomegranates, we can just synthesize this "resveratol" and put it in multivitamins right?
"They were pure niggers." – Noam Chomsky
Where do we apply for clinical trials?!
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I for one welcome this new synthesis between vice and medicine. What about strippers who can cure STDs and gambling to cure dyslexia?
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Go have a cold one! It's now healthy for you!
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They're both fucking close to water.
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You know, if you really think about it, maybe we don't want Joe Six Pack to be cured of cancer. Thinning out the herd can be good.
-- Fugacity: Confusing chemists since 1908
OK, what about AIDS-fighting condoms?...
A title now accurately applied to the Lebatt Blue bear!
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Do not underestimate the potential of nanobears with regards to their ability to fight diseases like cancer. I for one welcome our microscopic ursine overlords.
How about... the lung-cancer-fighting cigarette!!! What a perfect world!
just wonder why there are so many anonymous cowards in this world....
Wouldn't cigarettes that cured cirrhosis be more apt?
Drew Careys buzz beer eat your heart out.
...and cheeseburgers that get you laid.
I thought that said "Cancer-Fighting Bears" and got my hopes up...
...from the sale of each beer. Doesn't necessarily have to go towards cancer research; it could defray the cost of printing the new labels. We'd still buy 'em, drink 'em...in the name of research, get it?
"Helping to find the cure, honey."
It's for the rest of us armchair jocks that can't run for a cause, unless it involved dashing to the fridge for the next one.
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Did anyone else note the strange reference to "Dell, Lenovo ThinkPad and Gateway laptops"?
Was that Computerworld's attempt to make it computer-related news?
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I guess scientists have finally heard what people say after they hear about studies into the migratory patterns of certain species of goose. And they did it!
I'm fighting cancer and growing hair right now!
The Ancients that created the Stargate didn't have a cure for baldness either...
... read the headline and thought it said "Cancer-Fighting Beer" and... wait... what? OH MY GOD!!!!
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For those who just can't brink themselves to drink. Teetotalers Anonymous.
They already do. You just have to start smoking them when you're really young.
Dear Will, the plums were poisoned. -- Cheese Club
...is there nothing it can't do?
But, I wanted socialized health insurance!
Budweiser
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The resveratrol in wine does not come from the yeast used to ferment it, it is a present in the fruit from which the wine is produced. While I have had far too much beer this evening to produce any links to back up this claim I will stake my reputation as an engineer, brewer and vintner that the stress undergone during the maturation of red wine grapes leads to the production of resveratrol. While tweaking yeast strains to reduce their impact on the resveratrol present in beer wort is an interesting idea, I would hazard that producing barley malt which contains a higher level of resveratrol would be much more likely to produce the desired result.
In most western countries we are starting to get problems from increasing pension costs. And this doesn't help.. Since living longer seems to be inevitable, we should probably accept that the minimum pension age is increased(since we live longer then we did 50 years ago). And the baby boom (~60's) generation should stop whining about cuts in their pensions asap, they are the number one cause for this problem in the first place (not producing enough children to support the cost of their own pension).
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Yes, there are lots of impressionable people in the world who are easily persuaded by advertising to choose their drink based on perceived coolness rather than on what's actually enjoyable to drink.
The other thing to bear in mind is that most quality beers are not brewed in great quantities. Carbonated urine is always going to sell vastly more by volume than anything worth drinking, simply because there's so much more of it on the market and fewer brands to choose from.
Budweiser
Yeah, Budweiser from Budweis (sometimes called Budvar), not watered horse piss from Anheuser-Busch.
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What's next, the cancer fighting beer suppository?
Joe Sixpack: "This beer tastes funny."
Carbon based humanoid in training.
It makes you want to fight!
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It seems that consuming a lot of sugar make you age faster. See for example: http://www.drlam.com/A3R_brief_in_doc_format/2001-No5-SugarandAging.cfm
Since beer is full of sugar, I doubt beer will help you slow down aging.
And about the french diet (I'm french), we are in better health not because we drink wine, but because we don't use corn syrup, and we don't drink sodas but mineral or tap water.
Also, eating vegetables is important, and in France, all ads about food contain some warning about eating 5 types of vegetables every day.
What is bad for our body is not fat or meat, it's SUGAR !
that's supposed to read "180 degrees"
So until this beer is in production I will have to endure drinking half a bottle of red wine every day, for health's sake! :p
Why bother with manufacturing silly beer when you already have Cannabis with its cancer fighting components.
I bet you were thinking to your self immediately, "Oh the irony."
"There are no facts, only interpretations." --Friedrich Nietzsche.
"The students, using their own Dell, Lenovo ThinkPad and Gateway laptops, are now in the process of developing a genetically modified strain of yeast that will ferment beer and produce resveratrol at the same time."
And we care what brand of laptops and PDAs they are using because...?
I guess Toshibas just don't cut it...
1) Betting you've never lived in France
2) 13% of MacDonalds' revenue comes from France, its the biggest market outside of the US
3) The french traditional foods are high fat (lots of cream) not potatoes and stews, that is Germany and its ilk
4) They drink wine like people in the US drink Coke, its just what you do and its perfectly normal
5) They smoke
Seriously if you are going to have a go at the French Paradox then get some sort of perspective on what they eat. Its loads of "McDo" and then rich meals with Duck, cream and the like. "Stew" and potatoes I've hardly ever had. Beans in a rich tomato sauce with meat, yup had that, but its hard to call it "stew". The French don't exercise much, although they do walk around more and do things more on the weekend than is "normal" in the US, this doesn't make them exercise freaks though.
The French Paradox of smoke, eat rich food and drink wine might not be down to the wine, but its certainly not down to them eating a German/Hungarian mix of potato and stew.
The real French paradox is how come the women all dress like the most stylish people on the planet and yet the blokes all wear jumpers that look like an aunt knitted them for Christmas.
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The students, using their own Dell, Lenovo ThinkPad and Gateway laptops, are now in the process of developing a genetically modified strain of yeast that will ferment beer and produce resveratrol at the same time.
What's with the blatant advertisement for those specific brands of laptops? The rest of the article seems ok, but the sentence that specifically mentions the brands of the students' laptops seems forced. I'm surprised they didn't mention a few brand names of wine and beer while they were at it.
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And that's all I'm saying on that.
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I can go out, get plastered AND slow aging AND lower my risk of cancer??? Sign me up!! Oh yeah...does anyone have a fresh clean liver I can have? I think mine is going to die an early death...
I for one am glad that we got an insight as to the specific brand of laptops the students are using (with links!).
Students + wisconsin + beer ... it's bound to be something wonderful.
Too bad the title and summary are both wrong. The linked article talks about beer that fights aging and heart disease. For some stupid reason they stuck in a couple of unrelated paragraphs about cancer-fighting nanotech. It never says anything about the beer fighting cancer.
What I really want is a beer that fixes obesity.
You never really know how close to the edge you can go until you fall off.
I'd guess that for a lot of people, price plays as much or more of a role in what they drink. Case in point: many college students.
Water is far too valuable as a solvent to use as a beverage.
Just add it to the menu at this place Beer Spa HomePage. Make sure to get your wife a gift certificate too!
Can they put it in Mountain Dew?
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That's a great example of an obsolete joke. It was funny in the 1970s, because it was true. Nowdays it makes you go "huh?" instead of laugh, because it doesn't make any sense. When you sip on some of those west coast IPAs or barleywines, you sometimes wonder if there's any water in it at all. "Geez, did they just put some malt and hops into a hydraulic press?"
Some say it was because of Carter repealing the homebrew prohibition in 1978, but I think America went from one of the worst countries for beer to one of the best, because of that joke. It was just too damn embarrassing and our national prestige was at stake. It's like the Monty Python guys accused us all of having small penises or something, but instead of going out and buying a big truck or fast sportscar, we bought a bigger penis.
But anyway, anyone who doesn't realize how hopelessly obsolete the joke is, needs to try some American beer again. It's been 30 years: go ahead and have a second sip.
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Budweiser
German or American Budweiser?
Thank you science! Now we just need cigarettes that cure baldness.
Yeah, nicotine suppresses testosterone production. The metabolization of testosterone can give you hair killing by products. So yes, cigarettes do fight baldness already.
My wife, who is a survivor of lymphoma, also has coeliac disease. Since beer contains gluten proteins she cannot drink it. This makes her sad.
Cancer-fighting bear?!? Sweet!
Thank you science! Now we just need cigarettes that cure cirrhosis.
Yes, bring on the cancer-fighting beer and liver-disease-fighting cigarettes!
Next step: penis-enlarging dinner mints.
What's enjoyable to you is not enjoyable to everyone. Some people actually don't like heavy beer.
If it has to be like syrup for you to consider it as having any taste, maybe the problem is your tastebuds.
...the future crusty old bastards are already drinking the Kool-Aid.
The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!
Universal health care + medicinal beer = FREE BEER!
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For a country renowned for its alcoholism, I dare say that Ireland could not possibly lack for brands of beer.
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You're wrong. Budweiser (the brand owned by AB) is brewed in Ireland under license to Guinness. It's a shame some ignoramuses modded you up instead of fact-checking.
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When you see guys drinking Bud at your local pub.
The fact is, I am not a beer snob; I just don't like beer snobs who think Guinness is the only good beer in the world and sneer at those who don't feel beer should be opaque.
Pale lagers sell well in the US because that's what Americans (and lots of people in other countries) really like. And if I am in the mood for a pale, non pils lager, I'll drink Bud.
I drink Guinness now and again, too, but realize there are better stouts out there, both commercial and homebrew. It's just the supercilious Guiness drinker I don't like.
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I really disagree with beer snobs who look down at Bud. It is a quality pale lager, and it is very hard to produce that volume of beer the same way batch after batch, year after year.
Americans (and the Irish) like pale lagers. And if you like pale lagers, Bud is a decent beer. It's not usually my first choice of commercial beer (that would be Sierra Nevada Pale Ale), but I've never been one to tell people what they should like. Some people like chocolate, some vanilla, some blondes, some redheads. Different strokes for different folks. If someone likes Bud, good for them - they are satisfied with a relatively cheap beer.
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The funny thing in all this is that I, and most of my friends who also have an appreciation for beer, tend to agree that Guinness is pretty enjoyable, if not the best stout you can get, and that Budweiser, and even Bud Light, are also pretty good beer for the price, particularly in comparison with truly atrocious beverages like Coors and Miller. Mind you, even bad beer companies can churn out a decent enough beer, like Coors' Blue Moon, a pretty drinkable if not great wheat beer.
First, I'd like to say thanks for showing so much interest in our project. I'm going to try to answer explain how we are going to coax the yeast into producing resveratrol with as little bio jargon as possible.
Red wine enjoys high concentrations of resveratrol because its fermentation energy source contains the skins of red grapes, where resveratrol is produced naturally in high concentrations in response to stresses such as fungal infection, UV irradiation, etc. These grape skins have resveratrol not because they absorb it from their environment, but because they can bio-synthesize it de novo. That is to say, grapes have genetic information (genes) that use the common building blocks of life present in all organisms to construct this rather esoteric compound, resveratrol. We are simply taking the set of genes responsible for resveratrol biosynthesis in grapes and introducing them to the yeast. Thus, our new genetically modified yeast will be capable of producing resveratrol from its basic building blocks, just like grapes. And unlike red wine, which gets resveratrol from the fermenting energy source, our beer will get resveratrol DIRECTLY FROM THE FERMENTING YEAST.
Also, I would like to clarify that we haven't completed engineering all of the genes responsible for resveratrol synthesis into our brewing yeast (which we obtained from St. Arnold's Brewing Co., Houston, Texas (Hefeweizen strain)). We currently are able to produce resveratrol, but we have to feed our yeast some intermediate metabolites. We're hoping that our yeast will be able to fully produce resveratrol on its own by Christmas.
If that was too much information, I apoligize, but if it wasn't enough, feel free to email me any other questions you might have.
Cheers,
Taylor Stevenson
tcs1@rice.edu
Actually, American "Bud" is not in my opinion a bad beer. It's a boring beer. A "lawnmower" beer. I don't drink it because I don't have unlimited room in my diet for alcohol and calories, not because the taste is dreadful.
My main gripe with Bud is not its lightness, which is neither here nor there as far as I'm concerned. It's the near total lack of any distinctive aroma to its hops. Most Americans who now "hops" as an ingredient in Bud probably have no idea that hops are flowers.
The Czech beer on which Bud is flavored (which is reportedly impossible to duplicate without just the right water) is famous for its hop flavor. Pre-prohibition American beers derived from this style were lighter in body, already using maize or rice, but if old recipes are to be believed, they were probably more hoppy than modern "Bud". After Prohibition, I suspect that a thirsty and less educated American market was not ready for a strong hop flavor, and so the American style of lager was born.
In a way, the flavor of Bud, insipid though it may be, is a technical marvel. Given the alcohol content and light flavor, the tiniest problem with fermentation would be extremely noticeable. I've brewed Russian Imperial Stouts where you could probably pickle a dead skunk in the wort and nobody would notice. Presuming you could get it into the wort; the hydrometer just sat on top of the wort as if it were a bucket of wet cement.
I'm more into ciders and meads these days; they're harder to get. Good cider is especially hard to come by; I favor a dry cider brewed with champagne yeast. What got me off of brewing beer was Long Trail's IPA. I couldn't imagine any IPA I made coming out better, so why bother?
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im cancer free!
bad news is the cirrhosis just set in...but i hear magic liver taffy is on the horizon.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Czechvar is what I've seen it sold as here in Seattle. And I didn't think it was very good. Just about any of the beer that comes out of the breweries here is better imo.