His Nobel Prize recognized contributions to what specific research?
Recombinant DNA
CRISPR-Cas9
Polymers
Enzyme kinetics
Answer
Kary Mullis won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993 for his contributions to the development of polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a method of copying DNA. PCR has revolutionized biology and medicine, making it possible to rapidly and cheaply amplify DNA for a variety of purposes, including diagnosis, forensics, and gene therapy.
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