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
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.
PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
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.
People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
A lot of people studying this disease are looking for clever little pathways they can piece together that will show how this works.
There are a lot of people for whom psychedelics have been really beneficial. But I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. Some are just not ready but society would benefit from letting people who are ready for psychedelics have legal acces to them.
People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.
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.
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.
Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.
It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.
You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.