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Cetus Corporation

Cetus Corporation was an American biotechnology company based in Emeryville, California. It is described as the first biotechnology company.[1]

Kary Mullis pioneered the use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) while working at Cetus.[2]

History

Cetus was founded in 1971 by Donald Glaser, Moshe Alafi, Ron Cape, and Peter Farley.

  1. First-Hand:Starting Up Cetus, the First Biotechnology Company - 1973 to 1982. (2015, March 4). Engineering and Technology History Wiki. http://archive.today/2022.02.19-033058/https://ethw.org/First-Hand:Starting_Up_Cetus,the_First_Biotechnology_Company-_1973_to_1982 ↩︎

  2. Rabinow, P. (1996). Making PCR: a story of biotechnology. University Of Chicago Press. https://archive.org/details/makingpcrstoryof00rabi/mode/1up ↩︎