PCR - the music video

Man oh man, if only they’d had this video when I was taking Cell and Molecular Bio in 1999 - it might have injected a wee bit of life into our 3 hour Thursday evening lectures (Anne and I resorted to pen wars to keep ourselves occupied).

Anyways. Please please watch the above. It’s like a ray of nerdy sunshine to the tune of a gospel choir, provided to us by Bio-Rad, who make PCR machines (I mean SHIT man, that is the best ad for lab equipment I have ever seen and I’ve seen a lot of them).

My favorite line: “It’s amazing what heating and cooling and heating will do...” Of course the chorus is pretty amazing too: “PCR when you need to detect mutation. 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.”

Kary Mullis would be so very, very proud.

(Thanks Tom)