I took a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test again the other day. As always, I swung between pessimism and optimism while I awaited the result. Curious about how this ever-unsettling test was ...

Kary B. Mullis sits in his beachfront apartment in La Jolla, surrounded by his tools of seduction. There are bottles of wine, surfboards, a guitar (“Women go crazy when you play the guitar for them”), ...

It is a trite point that every patentable invention needs an inventor as claimant, just as every inventor needs an invention to claim possession of. However, it does not follow that objectively ...

Thirty years ago, in 1983, Kary B. Mullis conceived an experimental method for amplifying small quantities of DNA— the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)—that would go on to revolutionize the study of ...

When Kary Mullis, Ph.D., first conceptualized the idea of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in 1983 he immediately knew the technology would revolutionize life sciences research. The Nobel ...

Kary B. Mullis, a biochemist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a way to analyze DNA easily and cheaply and thus pave the way for major advances in medical diagnostics, ...

Molecular biologists have always faced the challenge of working with the smallest of specimens, expending a great deal of time and energy attempting to manipulate substances millions of times smaller ...

The discovery of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technique, by Kary B. Mullis, allowed scientists to generate millions of copies of DNA. In 1991, Roche bought the rights to PCR from Cetus and invested ...