History of PCR

From its birth Polymerase Chain Reaction, PCR, changed the molecular biology world. In 1983 Kary Mullis conceived the concept of PCR while driving along Highway 128, en route to Mendocino County. While working at Cetus Corporation, Kary Mullis uses a SAM I DNA synthesizer from Biosearch Technologies to test his hypothesis, and the rest, as they say, is history. Thirty years later, Biosearch respectfully commemorates the development of a technique that swiftly answered previous DNA chemistry problems