PCR was developed in 1983, a discovery that earned Kary Mullis the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ten years later. The technique, now a staple of every molecular biology lab, uses the thermostable Taq ...

I very much enjoyed your article on students celebrating the 100th birthday of Alfred R. Bader (C&EN, Dec. 2/9, 2024, page 51). In 1976, in addition to it being the 200th birthday of the US, it ...

On his way out of the White House on Jan. 20, Joe Biden issued a preemptive pardon for, among others, his chief medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci. The week before, the federal Department of ...

Research Institute for Light-induced Acceleration System (RILACS), Osaka Metropolitan University, 1-2 Gakuencho, Nakaku, Sakai, Osaka 599-8570, Japan Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, ...

Due to icy conditions, especially on secondary roads and driveways and out of an abundance of caution and for everyone’s safety, the Mullis Center is closed Wednesday, February 5th and the following ...