According to the wincountry, It's said that making beer is both an art and a science.  California-based Sierra Nevada Brewing Company is providing the latter, using its high-tech gear to to increase the availability of local COVID-19 testing.

Sierra Nevada founder and original brewer   Ken Grossman tells ABC Audio that the beer company's cutting-edge PCR machines -- a DNA amplifier normally used to ensure product purity -- are being pressed into service to create a viral transport medium.  This chemical mixture preserves clinical samples, like those found in nose and mouth swabs used to test for the virus, while the samples are transported to a lab for analysis.

Grossman says they got involved when the CEO of the brewery's local hospital "reached out to us with some challenges about sourcing supplies, both the protective gear and some of the PCR testing equipment."

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