Beer is Good for You!... again

This recent news item shows that beer is actually good for us in ways that we never fully understood and gives yeast some of the credit...

Potential in yeast for selecting Lou Gehrig's disease drugs

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine are developing a novel approach to screen for drugs to combat neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, using yeast cells.

http://www.huliq.com/57211/potential-yeast-selecting-lou-gehrig039s-disease-drugs