Right Turn: He wants a clone

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Who doesn’t love a science lesson communicated through song? (That’s rhetorical; there’s no need to leave a comment below.)

Mr. W., aka Glenn Wolkenfeld, has been educating and enthralling high school students and ended up with a teaching excellence prize. Here he is rapping his thank you speech at the Alameda County Teacher of the Year Awards Ceremony in 2014.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that he is just one in a small breed of educators who likes to sing/rap their lessons. I’m also a fan of the Stem Cell Rapper.

Below is why Mr. W. wants a clone of himself. Interestingly, his song mentions Sir John Gurdon and Sir Ian Wilmut as pioneers in cell biology, but it doesn’t acknowledge Shinya Yamanaka. Mr. W. promises that he’s working on a regenerative medicine (RM) lesson and if you keep watching to the end, you’ll hear him rap, briefly, about creating new livers in his nod to RM, but still no mention of Dr. Yamanaka. The second video is about the three transformative researchers.

http://distrify.com/films/423-stem-cell-revolutions?widget_id=2731&utm_source=Distrify&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=Widget-2731

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Stacey Johnson

Stacey Johnson is the editor of Signals and a contributor. For 25 years, Stacey has been providing strategic communications counsel to government, corporate, technology and health organizations. She began her career at the CTV Television Network and then moved to Hill & Knowlton Canada where she advised clients in a variety of industries and sectors. Stacey is the Vice President, Communications and Marketing for CCRM, a leader in developing and commercializing regenerative medicine-based technologies and cell and gene therapies. She has a Master's degree in Public Relations. You can follow her on Twitter @msstaceyerin.

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