Here @ NNB, we scan the all the best medical reporting for links to local scientists.

The Weekly World News – a supermarket tabloid now run as a supplement to the Sun– makes reference to Knome, the local genome sequencing company. As reported elsewhere, the company is sequencing Ozzy Osbourne’s genome.

Ozzy is interested in finding out why he has survived but the study may well produce an incidental benefit to medical science in general. For instance, it may be that some variant in his genes make this liver better than most at breaking down toxic substances. It that’s true, gene therapies based on Ozzy’s cells could provide powerful weapons in the fight against disease.