Virologist Makes a Beer That's Also a Vaccine

Christopher B. Buck, Ph.D., is a virologist with the National Institutes of Health's Laboratory of Cellular Oncology. Science News reports that he has lately experimented on himself and his brother by brewing and drinking beer that contains effective vaccines against cancer-causing polyomarivuses.

The project has caused legal difficulties for Buck who, as a scientist with the US federal government, is constrained by ethical requirements for experiments on human subjects--even if test subjects are himself and his brother. The formed and serves as the sole employee of the Gusteau Research Corporation to provide himself with some means of evading these restrictions.

-via NEXTA