YouTube videos

YouTube videos on science.

"Scientists for Better PCR", or BioRad PCR song, is a famous Music Video for every molecular biologist.

Lately, BioRad made a music video "GTCA Song" for better realtime PCR too.
This is a parody of YMCA. YMCA is popular in Japan too; that hit in 1990th as "Young man" by Hideki Saijo.


"Protein Synthesis: An Epic on the Cellular Level" is an old film that vulgarizes protein synthesis.
The description says that this short film directed by Robert Alan Weiss in 1971 for the Department of Chemistry of Stanford University and continues to be shown in biology class today.

"Ensuring the Future of Food"
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan (MAFF) provides this through the website. Japan is now the largest net food importer in the world: the Japan's self-sufficiency rate in food is less than 40%. The MAFF promises to take efforts to increase the self-sufficiency to stabilize food market in the world.
Groovisions, a design group in Japan, created the motion-graphic video. The group also made promotional videos for Halfby, a Japanese solo project.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=1lMsnj4AT78
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=TtX_ezx6VKw
These videos got popular by sharing. People around the country, including in Akihabara, Nagoya, Higo, and Sapporo, attempted to make the live-action films.
Here the video that gathered four distinct versions.
Upper left, Nagoya version; Lower left, Higo version; Upper right, Sapporo version; and lower right, the original motion graphic video.
Each has unique local character, but the Higo version is much better because that really tunes with the original one.