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The Latest Term We Never Expected to Hear: "Genome Pop"

Aug 07, 2007

Why is Jason Bobe our source for all songs that are genome-related? We're not sure, but the Personal Genome blogger has done it again. This time the song is Polony a Go-Go, written by James Kugler, an undergrad working in George Church's lab. Check out the blog post for lyrics or click here to go straight to the song.

 

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