San Diablo reminds me of Marc Zimmer's fantastic site about green fluorescent protein. Among other attractions is a beautiful QuickTime movie of Ca2+ stimulating aequorin to emit blue light, which is absorbed by GFP and re-emitted as green light (I only realized it was a picture and not a still picture when weird things started happening as I scrolled down using my Mighty Mouse scroll ball).
But the very special thing on that page is right at the bottom: the rap video by Notorious GFP.
yo i just do it like, oh oh, i be the kid with the laminar flow i just go: hey cell its your birthday, lets party like its your birthday, we gonna inject dna cuz its your birthday, so every single day we transform DNA I'm packing two fiddy micros into my Gilson
(lyrics)
Mental. Total Dagenham.
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Shweeeeeeet...
Thank you for posting this. Collecting science music videos is a hobby of mine. I will return the favor by sending you the funniest commercial ever! (done as a science music video, funniest if you are familiar with We Are the World)
http://bio-rad.cnpg.com/lsca/videos/ScientistsForBetterPCR/
PS: It looks like I can comment again, yay!
Posted by: Maxwell's Demoness | March 29, 2008 08:39 AM
Although I saw the BioRad thing a while ago, I haven't had the emotional strength to bring myself to actually watch it.
It was bad enough in '85. *shudder*
Posted by: bk | March 29, 2008 12:54 PM