Redefining Cool, He Built an Instrument that Mattered

Source: Geo visit to Biosearch Technologies, 9/13/2013.

In the Biosearch library with their President and founder, Ron Cook. Ron had tracked down and acquired the cool instrument, 30 years after his inventing, building and selling it resulted in a biomedical revolution (it helped that he sold it to the right person, who had interesting needs). 

My thanks to Dr. Marc Beal for the photograph and organizing my visit -- which was centered on single molecule FISH http://stellarisfish.smugmug.com and imaging hardware.

The cool instrument in the photo was invented by Ron Cook. Another look - with a close-up of the autograph by its first user:

http://blog.biosearchtech.com/TheBiosearchTechBlog/bid/98660/30-Years-The-Impact-of-PCR

The instrument is featured in this blog by its autographer, Kary Mullis,

http://www.karymullis.com/pcr.shtml

See also

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1993/mullis-bio.html

https://www.biosearchtech.com/support/videos/30-years-pcr-history

https://youtu.be/RhBiy4lyDkg

From its birth Polymerase Chain Reaction, PCR, changed the molecular biology world. In 1983 Kary Mullis conceived the concept of PCR while driving along Highway 128, en route to Mendocino County. While working at Cetus Corporation, Kary Mullis uses a SAM I DNA synthesizer from Biosearch Technologies to test his hypothesis, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Introduction:

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/38422/title/PCR--Past--Present----Future/

webcast:

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/36645/title/PCR--Past--Present----Future/

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Kary Mullis – Sons of Sputnik

http://www.tedxorangecoast.com/videopick/kary-mullis-sons-sputnik/

https://youtu.be/iSVy1b-RyVM

Kary Mulis is telling us a story of young age scientist seeking knowledge. Kary received a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1993, for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The process, which Kary Mullis conceptualized in 1983, is hailed as one of the monumental scientific techniques of the twentieth century.