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Nobel Laureate and PCR Inventor Kary Mullis Dies

Kary Mullis, PhD, the scientist who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his invention of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) at Cetus during the 1980s, has died from pneumonia at the age of ...
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PCR @ 30: 30 Years Young and Still Evolving

It was 30 years ago when Kary Mullis conceived the chain reaction that looked possible by adding polymerase to a DNA molecule in the presence of short oligonucleotide primers and nucleotide ...
The State

Kary Mullis and the machine that made him famous

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 ...
Post and Courier

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who grew up in SC capital dies at 74

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 ...
The Boston Globe

Kary Mullis, unconventional Nobel laureate who unlocked DNA research, dies at 74

WASHINGTON — Kary Mullis, who shared a Nobel Prize in chemistry for devising a technique vital in DNA research and technology, died Wednesday in Newport Beach, Calif. Dr. Mullis, one of the most ...
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Kary B. Mullis, Who Found a Way to Analyze DNA, Dies at 74

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 ...
Business Wire

Loxbridge and Dr Kary Mullis Announce the Formation of Altermune Technologies with $7m Seed Investment

ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dr Kary Mullis, the Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), the cornerstone of much of today’s DNA science, has entered a ...
The Scientist

Mr. Cycle: An Automated PCR Prototype

A 1985 prototype of a semi-automated thermal cycler, hot and cold water baths not included. Credit: Courtesy of The Smithsonian Institution" />A 1985 prototype of a semi-automated thermal cycler, hot ...
Poynter

FALSE: Social media users say that some videos of Kary Mullis, inventor of PCR, make it very clear that the test is not useful for detecting viruses, and that they dismantle ...

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OC Weekly

Kary Mullis, Ron Finley and Sara Volz Unveiled as September TEDxOrangeCoast Speakers

TEDxOrangeCoast, which stages TED conferences in Orange County, has announced tickets are now on sale and three speakers have been revealed for September's event at the Segerstrom Center in Costa Mesa ...
Inverse

Better Than Roses, Buy a Nobel Prize This Valentine's Day

Skip the gold jewelry this Valentine’s Day and go straight to a gold plated medal. On Sunday, the Nobel Prize of Dr. Kary Mullis will be put up for auction at the Sheraton Pasadena Hotel in Pasadena, ...