Hangover-free wine is here. All your prayers have been answered.

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There are two things in life that I know to be true. One is that I love wine. The second is that the day after inducing, well, a few too many vinos, I become a headache-y mess. But I have some news which has brought tears of joy to my eyes – hangover-free wine is here. Zero. Hangover. Wine.

Do I have your attention now? Thought so.

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Scientists at the University of Illinois have discovered that toxic byproducts in wine are responsible for your head-pounding hangover. The best bit? They’ve now figured out how to remove them. Clever things.

“Fermented foods – such as beer, wine, and bread – are made with polyploid strains of yeast, which means they contain multiple copies of genes in the genome,” explained Associate Professor of microbial genomics at the University of Illinois, Yong-Su Jin.

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“Until now, it’s been very difficult to do genetic engineering in polyploid strains because if you altered a gene in one copy of the genome, an unaltered copy would correct the one that had been changed.”

If, like us, that science-talk didn’t make a whole lot of sense to you, it basically translates to: scientists are using a “genome knife” which allows them to cut the hangover-causing compounds out of the DNA of yeast used to produce the wine.

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Can I get a team wine dance please?

But wait, there’s more!

Not only does this fancy, erm, “knife” remove the hangover effect – it also boosts the health benefits of wine and makes it taste better (if that is even possible when it comes to a cool glass of pinot gris).

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“Say we have a yeast that produces a wine with great flavour and we want to know why… we delete one gene, then another, until the distinctive flavour is gone, and we know we have isolated the gene responsible for that characteristic,” Dr Jin explains.

Does that mean we can by a six dollar bottle and make it taste expensive? The jury is still out on that one.

All of this exciting information leads me to ask one question – can we start crowd-funding to get this happening faster? Watch this space.