Celebrating My DNA Hero on National Adoption Day
It was then that the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, Dr. Kary Mullis, the brains behind the polymerase chain reaction technique (PCR), the man whose discovery The New York Times described as “dividing biology into the two epochs of before P.C.R. and after P.C.R.,” leaned forward with a question.
“So Patricia, tell me about you,” he asked, as if I was the interesting person in the room.
