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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to the early edition of the weekly science column I publish in Saturday’s Orange County Register. Today you’ll read about how Nobel laureate Kary Mullis of Newport Beach has quietly been ...

My reporting skills must be slipping. A famous chemist who invented an invaluable way to study DNA faster and more easily has been hanging out at UC Irvine for a couple of years and I only recently ...

LOS ANGELES —Kary B. Mullis was an LSD-dropping, climate-change-denying, astrology-believing, board-surfing, Nobel Prize-winning chemist who was both widely respected and equally criticized for his ...

The scientist, seen here speaking in 1995, had a reputation for ignoring the normal strictures, cautions and conventions (AFP/Getty) Mullis, who has died of pneumonia aged 74, shared the prize in 1993 ...

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 ...

Kary Mullis died on August 7 th 2019, from pneumonia. The 1993 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, who received the award for the invention of the Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), was 74 years old. Kary ...

The claim: PCR creator Kary Mullis said the tests can detect 'anything in anybody' and can't tell you if you're sick Biochemist and PCR test creator Kary Mullis died in 2019, months before the ...

Kary B Mullis, inventor of PCR tests, said they cannot detect free infectious viruses. Our verdict This quote does not come from Mullis himself, but from an article about him. PCR tests accurately ...

Kary B. Mullis, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, died Aug. 7 of pneumonia at the age of 74. He won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method for ...