The Laboratorytalk Prize for the best bit of science marketing in January goes to Bio-Rad, for a brilliant music video called The PCR Song, performed by Scientists for Better PCR, which is currently something of a hit on You-Tube.
I need say no more, except to provide a few lines of lyrics and the video itself.
There was a time when to amplify DNA,
You had to grow tonnes and tonnes of tiny cells.
Then along came a guy named Dr Kary Mullis,
Said you can amplify in vitro just as well.
Just mix your template with a buffer and some primers,
Nucleotides and polymerases, too.
Denaturing, annealing, and extending.
Well it’s amazing what heating and cooling and heating will do.
PCR, when you need to detect mutations.
PCR, when you need to recombine.
PCR, when you need to find out who the daddy is.
PCR, when you need to solve a crime.
My only criticism is that PCR is never spoken out, and I’d really love to see Polymerase Chain Reaction as a song lyric. How long before we see a version of
I can’t get no
Polymerase Chain Reaction
I can’t get no
recombinant mutation
‘cos I’ve tried
and I’ve tried… ?
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March 5th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
[…] Swan, the editor of LaboratoryTalk, pointed to one omission in the song: using just the PCR acronym. “I’d really love to see […]
December 2nd, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Any one have experience with the Abbot Aeroset instrument?