After writing this I searched youtube and discovered that this has already been done twice... one is about Darwin and the other is by the Beastie Boys.
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Hello dark room, my old friend
I've brought my western here again
This time my protein's not degraded
This time the signal's not yet faded
And the bands will stand out like a yellow fly
With white eyes
And shine the sound of Science
In LTL I walk alone
Cultures still have not yet grown
Giving up I return to home
My pain is growing like a new genome
But then I turn around and from Wawa I buy hoagies
and two coffees
To fuel the sound of Science
And on the cover slip I saw
ten thousand cells or maybe more
Cells dividing without splitting
Cells dividing without quitting
Cells secreting hormones that others will not use
And then they fused
And grew the sound of Science
"Fools", said I, "You do not know
My thesis like a cancer grows
Read my words that I might teach you,
Read your mail that I might reach you"
But my pleas, like a senior thesis fell
And landed
On the shelves of Science
And at last I bowed and prayed
For a thesis real or fake
Then the words of a distant cry
Echoed down from a young PI
And the voice said "the path to a paper is high-throughput cancer stem cells,
not a gel."
And it spoke with the sounds of Science.
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