In May 1983, Kary Mullis, a young technician working ... transforming one fragment into millions of identical copies. For Mullis, PCR allowed for quick identification of DNA segments based on ...

The technique has a 40-year history, and was developed in 1983 by the biochemist, Kary Mullis, who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery. PCR effectively amplifies selected ...

I took a PCR (polymerase chain reaction ... Naked in the Mind Field,” an autobiography of American biochemist Kary Mullis (1944-2019). According to his account, Mullis discovered the principle ...