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 ...

In May 1983, Kary Mullis, a young technician working for the Cetus Corporation, sat with idle hands and a busy mind. The laboratory he worked in was attempting to study DNA mutations linked to sickle ...