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, ...

Nearly 40 years ago, American biochemist Kary Mullis developed the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This technique impacted research in the life sciences so fundamentally that in 1993, less than a ...

In the summer of 1984, Henry Erlich, Glenn Horn, Randy Saiki, and myself were working on developing a DNA test for sickle cell anemia (SCA) at Cetus Corp. SCA is an autosomal dominant disease caused ...

I think all molecular biologists would recognize that the papers describing di-deoxy sequencing 1 and Kary Mullis' PCR technique 2 have changed the world of science profoundly. Mullis, a true "gonzo" ...

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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 ...