In its formative years PCR and its intellectual possessors had to go through some legal wrangling over the originality of the technique. In point of fact, a 13-year earlier paper by Nobelist Gobind ...

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 ...

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" ...

“What if I had not taken LSD ever; would I have still invented PCR? I don’t know. I doubt it. I seriously doubt it.” In 1986, biochemist Kary Mullis invented the polymerase chain reaction, a technique ...

Cetus Corporation scientist Kary Mullis invented a method -- known as polymerase chain reaction -- to take a small DNA section and make copies of it. Without PCR, forensic scientists, drug developers, ...