View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Kary Mullis, whose invention of the polymerase chain reaction technique earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993, died of pneumonia on ...

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That discovery led to the invention of the polymerase chain reaction, or PCR (as in the PCR tests we took during the pandemic), which enables scientists to select specific DNA fragments and then ...

“It's an entirely new method of gene detection,” Matthew Hummer said. “A new method really hasn't been invented since the 1980s when PCR was first brought to market. And, with a lot of advancements in ...

The invention can effectively differentiate ... the research team has developed the world’s first droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) test targeting selected unique bacterial ...