Posted on 07/02/2010 9:09:33 PM PDT by JoeProBono
ST. LOUIS, - Missouri researchers studying Ozzy Osbourne's genes said they hope his DNA profile will give clues about how the 61-year-old rocker tolerates alcohol and drugs.
Cofactor Genomics in St. Louis, which has been hired to sequence Osbourne's genome for analysis by Massachusetts firm Knome, said scientists will look at unique elements of his DNA to try to determine the secret behind his ability to live a relatively healthy life despite decades of abusing alcohol and drugs, McClatchy, Tribune News, reported Friday.
"They're taking someone who's healthy, who should have disease, and looking at that," said Jon Armstrong, chief marketing officer for Cofactor. "What's in the DNA, and what does it have that others don't have?"
Officials at Knome, which specializes in finding links to diseases in genomes, said Osbourne's genome likely won't give any easy answers, but it may provide leads for scientists to follow.
"Maybe we will find a new variant in a gene that's expressed in Ozzy's liver, and that gene may already be implicated in detoxifying some class of drugs," research director Nathan Pearson said. "Finding that may not be a smoking gun in figuring out what makes Ozzy tick, but it might be something that a scientist can follow up on."
It's THE METAL.
They should add Keith Richards to the list.
Forget Ozzy, they should do Keith Richards instead. He’s even older than Ozzy!
bttt
You can’t burn brain cells when you have no brain.
Have they seen, or heard, Ozzy?
LOL
WHAT tolerance to drugs? Ozzy could barely put together a coherent sentence. Have these “researchers” actually listen to the guy?
It could be the bat juice.
Heavy Metal ping
Lol...he couldn’t be any more stiff. They may have a hard time determining if he’s croaked.
he can afford a firm called Knome to look into this-everyday Joe can’t can he?
rich man’s medicine
that’s called gene expression
that’s called gene expression
His genes are pickled.
The power of Satan can preserve, but in a Gollum-like fashion.
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