From 65438 to 0983, American scientist Kelly Muhlis invented PCR (polymerase chain reaction), which is the most mature molecular diagnosis, that is, nucleic acid detection technology.
Kerry Muhlis was born in North Carolina on 1944. He grew up in Columbia, South Carolina, and went to college at Georgia Institute of Technology. 1973 received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Muhlis invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Japanese Prize with 1993.
Kelly Muhlis's achievements
1984, Muhlis successfully completed the PCR experiment for the first time. In the next three years, Muhlis successively applied for three core patents related to PCR technology, and maintained the validity of its patents in the patent litigation between 1989 and DuPont Company of the United States.
Obviously, Muhlis's title of "Father of PCR" is well deserved. The New York Times once commented that Kelly Muhlis's achievements are "very innovative and very important. Biology can be divided into two eras: pre-PCR era and post-PCR era."
PCR technology has changed modern molecular biology and biochemistry, and it is a revolutionary pioneering work in the biomedical field. Today, PCR has become the most important detection method in COVID-19, which provides a strong guarantee for large-scale and rapid virus screening.