80-YEAR-OLD GENETICIST CREATES DNA RAP TUNES

80-YEAR-OLD GENETICIST CREATES DNA RAP TUNES

LAKE WORTH, Fla. (Wireless Flash) -- Rap isn't just for young folks anymore: Now an 80-year-old geneticist has created something called "professa rap." Retired professor Irwin Herskowitz has written a series of raps about DNA and genetics to help students better understand the building blocks of the body. His first song is titled "YOUnique Rap" and includes lines like: "Each chromosome part that codes a protein/ Is a DNA unit called a `gene.'" Although Herskowitz wrote the rap songs, he doesn't sing them because -- in his words -- "I don't have a voice."