When Kary Mullis developed the idea for a machine that “clones” DNA while driving at night in northern California, he knew he was on to something big. “I thought to myself, ‘This is going to make me a ...

Kary Banks Mullis, who won the 1993 Nobel Prize for chemistry, died Wednesday in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 74. Born Dec. 28, 1944, in Hickory, N.C., Mullis was the son of Cecil B. Mullis and ...

Kary Mullis died on August 7 th 2019, from pneumonia. The 1993 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, who received the award for the invention of the Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), was 74 years old. Kary ...

The cause was heart and respiratory failure brought on by pneumonia, his wife, Nancy Cosgrove Mullis, said. The process for analyzing DNA that Mullis invented is called polymerase chain reaction, or ...

Kary Mullis, the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who graduated from Columbia’s Dreher High School, died Wednesday at the age of 74. Mullis was famous for developing the technique for amplifying DNA, a ...

Biochemist Kary Mullis says he was driving from the Bay Area to his cabin in Mendocino in 1983 when suddenly, like a bolt of lightning out of the California sky, he came up with a way to pinpoint a ...