Vaccine Beer

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This article originally appeared in the May/June 2026 issue of Zymurgy Magazine

By Mark Pasquinelli

American virologist and homebrewer Chris Buck discovered a way to use brewer’s yeast to produce a vaccine for a deadly group of viruses known as polyomaviruses.

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