Medicine & Health · Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
A topic within Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Medicine & Health.
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Kary B. Mullis
Mullis's own Nobel lecture account of conceiving PCR, arguing the technique's power lies in its conceptual simplicity — repeated cycles of a simple reaction — rather than any single clever reagent, and tracing how that simplicity was initially underestimated.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Randall K. Saiki, Stephen Scharf, Fred Faloona, Kary B. Mullis, Glenn T. Horn, Henry A. Erlich & Norman Arnheim
Demonstrates that a targeted DNA sequence can be enzymatically copied a millionfold before testing for a disease-causing mutation, introducing the polymerase chain reaction as a practical basis for molecular diagnosis.
link checked 17 Sept 2026