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1 month ago

A Brew With a Twist: Could Beer Be a Vaccine? - The Beer Thrillers

Chris Buck isn't your typical home brewer - he's a virologist at the National Cancer Institute, known for discovering several human polyomaviruses, a family of viruses linked to cancers and serious infections in people with weakened immune systems. Buck's day job involves developing vaccines against these viruses, but he took things in an unexpected direction: using yeast engineered to produce viral proteins, he brewed a beer that delivered those proteins orally.
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1 month ago

Uncles Tremble as Man Invents Vaccine Delivered by Beer

By day, virologist Chris Buck works for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Maryland, where he's discovered four of the 13 polyomaviruses we know to affect humans, Science News reports. But by night, he runs Gusteau Research Corporation, a one-man shell company he established so he could experiment on his bubbly inoculation: an ingestible polyomavirus vaccine. To make the beer, Buck engineered a special strain of yeast infused with polyomavirus-like particles.
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8 months ago

He let snakes bite him some 200 times to create a better snakebite antivenom

Tim Friede uses self-envenomation to raise awareness of snake bite dangers and aid antivenom development.
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