MULLIS, Kary Banks (1944 – 2019)
1944 – 2019
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1985 CE
#10785
Enzymatic amplication of B-globin genomic sequences and restriction site analysis for diagnosis of sickle cell anemia.
Polymerase chain reaction first published. With Randall K. Saiki, Stephen Scharf, Fred Faloona et al. Order of authorship in the original paper was Saiki, Scharf, Faloona, Mullis.... In 1993 the Nobel Prize in Chemist…
1986 CE
#7213
Specific enzymatic amplification of DNA in vitro: The polymerase chain reaction.
Improvements that Mullis made to the polymerase chain reaction in 1983 enabled PCR to become a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology. The process was first described by Kjell Kleppe and 1968 Nobel la…