"How you tell a cell it should be in a spleen?"

"Yo, you regulate it's genes"

The English makes me cringe, but I love the idea. Tom McFadden, an associate instructor at Stanford, has made a series of Biology rap videos and posted them on YouTube.

Yo, check it out.

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