PCR Song

By purepedantry on March 5, 2009.

This is pretty funny. It is a song honoring the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) that parodies "We are the world." (Check below the fold.)

Hat-tip: TierneyLab

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I came across the Bio-Rad PCR song lyrics (we do PCR in our labs)and Googled to see if anyone had made a video of the song and found this site. Video is pretty well done

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