The PCR Song

[@Batdouche]

I've never seen a man so happy to be holding a PCR machine in my life. This is amazing.

[@HipHopOtaku]

We watched this in biochem last semester, and everyone took out their cell phones and waved them in the air like at a concert. It was great!

[@musicmeister1313]

if only my biochem class was that lit XD, then again, no one shows up.....XD

[@aegisere]

Lyrics There was a time when to amplify DNA, You had to grow tons and tons 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. (repeat chorus)

[@kvdp9543]

"PCR, when you want to defraud the population..."

[@willyanguiano7218]

@@kvdp9543 how?

[@blueroyal7081]

Had to do an assignment where I copy down the lyrics to this song and this comment saved me so much time

[@bonwick]

What an amazing piece of art. It manages to be funny as a spoof, catchy as a tune, memorable as an ad, and inspiring as a celebration of human progress -- all at the same time!

[@shay9541]

the knowledge that this song exists has improved my quality of life tenfold.

[@alexandrakaragiwrgi4237]

When I got in uni I thought of my professors as like *serious scientists*. As I get more familiar with them in the labs, I have to tell you, this is the sort of fuckery that goes on😂

[@VT-mw2zb]

@@cindytomato yes, he is a very glorified lab tech that need to shut the fuck up.

[@EviGranger]

Biology will never be the same again after this...xD

[@twins1877]

hahahahha

[@kvdp9543]

Yeah, it used to be about living things

[@jedivet]

I've been watching this for years. I revisit this every so often, because it's just pure gold. Thank you.

[@kradius2169]

... And yet even with this clever gem, still Kary Mullis has never become a household name ... big sigh from Fauxi.

[@JordanSmith-jd1ee]

Same.

[@jedivet]

@@JordanSmith-jd1ee Yup. Still true here too. :)

[@beccamdphd6432]

Me too!

[@wawacharlotte1116]

I once heard this song in highschool, and still jamming on it after 6 years. Gosh... proud to say it does bring back memories.

[@_eyn_]

You still jamming on pal. I know I am! 😃

[@arialba7890]

We watched this in school and everybody was laughing like "haha it's kind if funny" but our teacher was like "HAHAHAHA I CAN'T BREATHE...THIS IS HAHAHAHAH SO FUNNY....HAHAHA"

[@serenabi8050]

I laughed so hard, it's way too true :D

[@clip012]

Wow, u have PCR in school?

[@jinfightingjin2758]

True

[@chrisvanschothorst8075]

@@clip012 not at our school, but we learn what it is

[@kylefer]

Lol it's funnier when you've been in the medical field for a bit.

[@aby4111]

This song has saved me in many exams: Immunology, Virology and Ornithology, Cell Biology, and Microbiology. Love this so much!!

[@rydonwunali]

Pcr, when you need to find who your daddy is.

[@julian281198]

whos you daddy

[@AdabAbu]

lol @@julian281198

[@demirozdemir1776]

@@julian281198 PCR sucked for this sample

[@JCastro243]

How's the daddy...

[@grimshawr]

For those of you who don't know the story behind the discovery of PCR: Dr. Kary Mullis was out for a pleasant drive in California tripping hard on some LSD. He was thinking about some biochemical problem he was working on. He was visualizing reactions in his head and eventually he "saw" the idea for PCR. Off to the lab he went. God bless LSD.

[@ZDoggMD]

This is effin' fantastic.

[@Chris-cj5rh]

Only 2.1 million views? This should have at least 21 million!

[@jedivet]

Sometimes, you just have revisit the classics...thanks for this. Have enjoyed for years.

[@alexalam8364]

My teachers played this in the lab while I was making the master mix. Most awkwardest moment ever....

[@sagehugo6422]

Hahaha that's actually really funny

[@calliejwells]

This is the best song based on PCR in existence! I am thoroughly entertained. More commercials should put forth this amount of effort to educate many and entertain very few. HAHA

[@MrHyde30021993]

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.

[@keikidood]

I spend my evenings at work doing PCR flu and cdiff tests. Now I will have this song running through my head! Love it!

[@rammar]

eeee! We've passed our exam "Genetic Ingineering" last week, and now all my group sing this song.)) Unforgetable. It's awesome. Thanxx for utubing this!

[@Leucocephalus]

I am utterly addicted to this song! :) I keep playing it over and over again. I am such a nerd! Yay! I look forward to using PCR in my research work now.

[@Laurie2332]

I love this!! I heard in my genetics class for the first time last winter - I love it!!

[@GluffalO]

Fantastic. Studying Biotechnology right now in my course at college, just increased my nerd factor by 10 by understanding and laughing at this song.

[@sydneysteph]

It is a wonderful example of viral marketing. It is a technique which use social networks to produce increases in brand awareness. BRAVO BIO-RAD, well done. I LOVE IT.

[@R0SE007]

This song is amazing! I've been using it since my senior year in high school and I am now a senior in college!

[@nnsch2100]

I found this song during my finals... PURE GOLD ❤❤❤

[@wolfepaw]

This is absolutely brilliant!!! I don't know the category, but this ought to win tons of awards from someone. See, science can be fun and interesting.

[@raspberry996]

BEST BIO SONG

[@antiawarenessawarenessclub]

I think scientists might just be the most meme-ish population in the world

[@billhillier7075]

Currently studying a level biology with a month until exams- this song has made revision a little better 😂

[@AlexiaLyles]

I love the black guy who does the neck roll while saying "who's the daddyddyyy" and then he kisses a PCR machine. He's awesome!

[@LADYTAMJ]

Ok I just typed in PCR into the search box because I was bored and I do the PCRing in my lab and came upon this.....so glad I did.....this is Awesome!!!!!!!

[@themexcellentone]

This video is genius. Pure genius. Props to whoever wrote the song and spoofed 'USA for Africa.'

[@nelstar286]

This is the best thing I've ever found in my whole life. That might be because it's finals week and I'm not sleeping, but I also think it's possible this is just *that* great.

[@jeffreydosdall4481]

This is the funniest homework assignment I've gotten in a while...

[@AshezzLee]

My professor gave this to us to help us study. If that's not great, I don't know what is

[@panagiotistegean]

Absolutely amazing!Keep on the great work!!!

[@PharmD1984]

I've been watching this since forever. I love science 😍😍.

[@citrusoda]

I may have forgotten most of my bio, but I'll always remember pcr

[@CoffeeDeprived]

I love how the link to this song was actually in our Biology Lab manual, along with the lyrics :) Cheers from Cornell!

[@rebeccaherendeen3573]

OMG I am in 80's heaven! And nerd Bio teacher heaven!

[@FridayNightBagels]

Hi Mr, Caudill

[@beccamdphd6432]

I watched this when it came out and 15 years later, it never gets old.

[@samswift1718]

This is what the KZbin algorithm should be resurrecting

[@mawt]

talented actors and singers - they seem to love it!

[@911elm]

My biology teacher showed is this song and video and now I can't get it out of my head! Science is fun!

[@fuzzb0y]

watched this during our last microbi lab lecture... first time i was fully awake during that lecture, someone needs to flashmob this during one of our finals

[@actggtca]

@Invadurr PCR is a molecular biology tecnique to amplify DNA sequences.. in 1983 kary mullis developed PCR and in 1993 was awarded the nobel prize for his work

[@jordanambrus]

I've shown this to my fungi and it started photosynthesize.

[@j.gottfried1091]

Heute im Bio Lk gesehen, einfach klasse habe einen Ohrwurm

[@yannikv5208]

Habs heute beim lernen entdeckt, ich schmeiß mich weg :,D

[@Evilsheepiez]

This has literally lightened up my day of revision!

[@paranormalgurl22]

I'm totally gonna tell my biology teacher about this! I love this song!

[@debbie2892]

Sam you make me cry, the best Biology teacher ever...

[@aracelifuentes7665]

when reading about the disgnostic test for covid, this song inmediately came up to my head xD

[@sopherls9762]

Must be a scientist as well. It was one of the first thoughts in my head too. I actually expected the comment section to be filled with new comments of people trying to inform themselves.

[@minecraftmaster161]

Does anyone else know the reference to "We are the world"?

[@miaritzer5584]

I just searched for the name of the song I already know the melody of this song. I was so confused about for about a month😂 You answered a question that was in my head for long time😂

[@chrisbentonvet]

It's amazing what heating and cooling and heating will do

[@shnoycee]

we also had an exam in biochem about PCR...and one bonus question had the PCR song...fill in the blanks! LOL! ^^ I wish you well in your exams!

[@blazer0610]

This video helped out my PCR project alot

[@deenex]

16 years later and using this for A-Level Bio😂

[@scottsorangeslices]

sama haha 5 days left..

[@BassAceReturns]

Love the guy that's supposed to be Dylan (said you could amplify in vitro just as well). Watched this video in our 9th grade Honors Biology class - hilarious!

[@hanshimi]

Amazing! I just bought a Bio-Rad PCR machine!

[@SandraOrzel-b6d]

This is the nerdiest music video I have ever seen. PCR machine? I remember a time when I had to create my own gels and only used a centrifuge machine....

[@Ciaradexy]

This is absolutely wonderful!!!

[@ItsaStringThing]

this is so awesome. although I have no need for a PCR thermal cycler, I want to buy one now.

[@EveryThingWe]

Anyone listening still? I m a Molecular Biologist from Bangladesh. Where from u?

[@HipHopOtaku]

@MadDragonify You can do PCR with small samples, but there's a limit to how small the sample can be. (It also depends on the kind of equipment you use.) And by degraded, I don't necessarily mean mutated. I mean that over time DNA kind of...falls apart, for lack of a better term. (My professor and I had some problems with that during a research project we worked on last semester...it was very frustrating.)

[@hadinadali3537]

Fun fact the person that invented pcr was high on LSD like when they decided to make this music video 😂

[@DaNDiLiCiOuS02]

OMG I sooooo have Dr. Kary Mullis' autograph!!!! This is my all time favorite video!!!

[@Kritikomania]

Great PCR Song! Great singers Great company Go on Bio-Rad!

[@bladsac]

This changed my life.

[@LightEve82]

It's fantastic!!! great idea, BIO-Rad!!! :))

[@j.snakehole6552]

Find yourself someone who looks at you like this guy 1:37 looks at this PCR machine.

[@username17234]

I heard this song when it came out in my teens and I just stumbled upon it over a decade later and it's giving me mad nostalgia, nice one!

[@IndianNumismatist]

Hehehehee..thats a nice song there and good job by biorad!!!.. Makes me feel good when science gets its share of limelight for all good reasons!!! I have already shared the link with my friends :D

[@VicariousGamer]

It's amazing what heating, and cooling, and heating will do.

[@shinellebaptiste]

I remember watching this in Biology, and now I've got a job doing PCR in a lab so I'm back to re-educate myself 😂

[@KazigluTepes]

Wow. We have watched this several times in my biology class already. And I understand it all :D Yay science! :P Why would you feel grateful nor NOT understanding? I feel grateful for being able to understand it!

[@sluvjane]

There was a time when to amplify DNA, You had to grow tons and tons 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.

[@23ayay23070699]

Lol I love how no one saw the references to the original "We Are The World" music video XD

[@luv2tap1922]

References? That's exactly what this video is a parody of. That's why it's funny...

[@shakeyjake1992]

this is freaking awesome, I'm so passing Biology today thanks to this

[@SparkzLRR]

I'll tell my kids MJ's "We are the world" was derived from this

[@Calimecita]

This is fantastic! I wish they'd do a Spanish version, but in the meantime I'll translate the lyrics and send them to my friends. I loved it, ROFL!

[@fouyboy]

Didnt even know it was a commercial til the end, best commercial award goes to The PCR Song

[@SophiaRose37]

I used this in my college microbiology presentation. I got a 25/20 :D

[@MajorVeronica]

I'm crying this is so good

[@bradd613]

Watched this today In Ap bio. . .amazing

[@SHELLEYGRAMIDI]

AWSOME! Even for a commercial advertising.Anyone has the lirycs? I'd like to show this at my college class

[@xXPlayGamesHaveFunXx]

thx guys this helped me with my biologie exams :D

[@regears]

I will never be able to do a PCR with a straight face again! AWESOME!

[@LynxChan]

Oh this rocks, it'll be all over the center tomorrow. We already have our Bio-Rad PCR.

[@BubonicWoodchuck]

This is beautiful.

[@spall2913]

i was assigned this video for homework and i have to somehow figure out how to identify the different parts of a polymerase chain reaction

[@zombieatemeeee]

@Madasohn that's awesome man. I hope our bio test is like that

[@DrReginaldFinleySr]

Ha ha! This was great!! I'm going to show this to my students. lol

[@deccandob45]

Reginald Finley is

[@tgdhsuk3589]

pls dont llol

[@johnweir1217]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJzZaZZvbJ13jbc

[@ANCLARA2008]

That really brought back memories, jajjjaj , loved it!!

[@mattox21]

I love this song, its awesome. I just did a PCR today at work :D Gotta love it.

[@JerryLasnik]

With a license plate that reads DNA2RNA, you've got to know I LOVE that video! GO PCR!

[@muizawan]

Found the lyrics: There was a time when to amplify DNA, You had to grow tons and tons 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. (repeat chorus)

[@karmelhammoudez9877]

This was made 12 years ago, wow!

[@kamsufc]

I can't believe this exists.

[@Violet_Lotus_]

I know... it's totally weird.