Kary Mullis
Kary Mullis
Kary Banks Mullisis a Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist, author, and lecturer. In recognition of his improvement of the polymerase chain reactiontechnique, he shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith and earned the Japan Prize in the same year. The process was first described by Kjell Kleppe and 1968 Nobel laureate H. Gobind Khorana, and allows the amplification of specific DNA sequences. The improvements made by Mullis allowed PCR to become a central technique in biochemistry and molecular...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth28 December 1944
CityLenoir, NC
CountryUnited States of America
The immune system only works when you're prepared or when the thing that you've got takes a long time to develop,
Somebody is dying of anthrax and would like to be immune right now,
I hate this kind of crap. I'd like to write about something that's easy to write about, where you don't have to come up with a conclusion in the end.
The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
For the first time, our chemistry is sophisticated enough that we can take control of the machine that has been keeping us alive, the immune system,
People say to me, How many people have you seen die of this disease? They say, You don't know what causes it because you've never watched them die.
You don't discover the cause of something like AIDS by dealing with incredibly obscure things. You just look at what the hell is going on.
People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry at Georgia Tech. She bore Louise, and I studied. I learned most of the useful technical things - math, physics, chemistry - that I now use during those four years.
My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.
My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.
Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.