Kary B. Mullis sits in his beachfront apartment in La Jolla, surrounded by his tools of seduction. There are bottles of wine, surfboards, a guitar (“Women go crazy when you play the guitar for them”), ...

In 2003, Kary Mullis took The Scientist readers behind the scenes of the night in 1983 when he came up with the idea for PCR. He included a photo of his lab notebook that depicts his very first ...

This page from my notebook lists the chemicals which I put together into a single, purple-capped tube on September 8th, 1983, in a reaction I labeled PCR01. Build data‑driven, connected R&D workflows ...