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. Kary Mullis advancearticlechemistry share on social
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. Kary Mullis arbitraryartfashion Change image and share on social
Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark. Kary Mullis audiotapecarcoil Change image and share on social
PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV. Kary Mullis easyhivinfect Change image and share on social
Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself. Kary Mullis drivefocusinwardly Change image and share on social
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. Kary Mullis albertabankbarker share on social
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. Kary Mullis apparentlybehaviouralbunch share on social