CRISPR-Cas9 (“Mr. Sandman“ Parody) | A Capella Science

A G# Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream. C#7 F# make him the cutest that I’ve ever seen. B E Give him two lips like roses and clover, A F E then tell him that his lonesome nights are over. A G# Sandman, I’m so alone. C#7 F# Don’t have nobody to call my own. Bm Dm Please turn on your magic beam, A B E A Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream. CRISPR-Cas9 Bring me a gene Encoding for a specific protein Make a few snips at this coded locus You work so well inside a streptococcus Cas9 I’m so alone Without your scissors in my chromosome Cut me up and do it clean CRISPR-Cas9 bring me a gene CRISPR-Cas9 Keep me a gene A viral sequence you’ve already seen Chopped into bits and stored as genomic With clustered repeats That are palindromic Cas9 Bind with this code Use it to target infections of old Immunized like a vaccine CRISPR-Cas9 keep me a gene CRISPR-Ca