Cetus Corp.

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Cetus was a biotechnology company established in Berkeley, California in 1972. The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) was developed there for which Kary Mullis won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. It was taken over by Chiron Corporation in 1991.

[edit] References

• A. L. Demain, The Biopharmaceutical Revolution, Tekno Scienze (1 November d2005) (Good historical overview)

• Paul Rabinow, Making PCR: a story of biotechnology, The University of Chicago Press, 1996 (explores the culture of biotechnology as it emerged at Cetus Corporation during the 1980s)