Kary B. Mullis: A lament for the loss of a life that saved many

Kary B. Mullis: A lament for the loss of a life that saved many
By Rob Warden | August 18, 2019
More than a score of innocent men sentenced to death in 13 states have been exonerated and freed from prison in the last 26 years thanks to Kary Banks Mullis, who died this month at age 74 at his home in Newport Beach, Calif.

Mullis was neither a lawyer nor an activist.

Rather he was a biochemist, whose contribution to criminal justice and the innocence movement was accidental—but arguably the most significant in American history.

Mullis’s ground-breaking discovery was that heat-resistant enzymes found in a bacterium at Yellowstone National Park could amplify DNA.

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