Part Of Your Lab - A "Little Mermaid" Science Parody

Lyrics below!

Oh how I wish I could work in a lab.... but like, with none of the hard work and only good results?

A science parody of the amazing Disney song from The Little Mermaid, Part of Your World.

** Thanks abound **

Many thanks to Prof. Anthony Carr & Graham Frost at the Genome Damage & Stability Centre (GDSC), University of Sussex for letting us film in the lab. The GDSC researches how cells respond to damage to their DNA & how these processes are implicated in human diseases such as cancer & genetic disorders. Also huge thank you to PhD student Aimee (  / aimee_e27  ) for helping me make it rain Western Blot films.

Benjamin Fingerhut for his super duper piano magic.

Steve Cross for his equipment lending, technical wizardry and sage advice.
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Website: http://www.scienceshowoff.org/

Edited by the indomitable Lia Suissa who is a goddess among us mere mortals.
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** Lyrics **

Look at this stuff
Isn't it neat?
Wouldn't you think my collection's complete?
Wouldn't you think I'm the student
The student with ev'rything?
Look at this mould
Antibiotics untold
How many wonders can one lab hold?
Lookin' around here you'd think
(Sure) she's got everything

I've got pipettes and fridges aplenty
I've got funnels and beakers galore
(You want western blots?
I got twenty)
But who cares?
No big deal
I want more

I want to be where the postdocs are
I want to see
want to see 'em workin’
Spinnin' around on those
(Whad'ya call 'em? oh - centrifuges)
Proteins alone they don't get too far
Separation’s required for analysing, measuring
Gotta use something like
(What's that technique again?) HPLC

Up where they research
Up where they present
Up where they await peer-review with torment
But I’m making the tea
Wish I could be
Part of your lab

What would I give
If I could go
Outside my research topic?
What would I pay
To spend a day
In a conference hall? (A lot)
Betcha in the arts
They’ve got the smarts
To address the gender imbalance
Bright young women
Sick o' living
In a leaky pipeline

And ready to know what no one knows
Present my hypothesis
And get some data
What's a dream and why do we
What's the word? Sleep? (WE DON’T KNOW!)

When's it my turn?
Wouldn't I love
Love to explore that science above?
Out of the library
Wish I could be
Part of that lab