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,
Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
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.
Its not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There are no such documents.
I'm not politically correct.
We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
I'm not driven by being understood.
Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.