Mullis took Cetus ' side in the case, and Khorana refused to testify for DuPont ; the jury upheld Mullis's patent in 1991.

Mullis returned to science at the encouragement of friend Thomas White, who later got Mullis a job with the biotechnology company Cetus Corporation of Emeryville, California.

Mullis worked as a DNA chemist at Cetus for seven years ; it was there, in 1983, that Mullis invented his prize-winning improvements to the polymerase chain reaction.

After leaving Cetus in 1986, Mullis served as director of molecular biology for Xytronyx, Inc. in San Diego for two years.

In 1983, Mullis was working for Cetus Corp. as a chemist.

That spring, according to Mullis, he was driving his vehicle late one night with his girlfriend, who was also a chemist at Cetus, when he had the idea to use a pair of primers to bracket the desired DNA sequence and to copy it using DNA polymerase, a technique which would allow a small strand of DNA to be copied almost an infinite number of times.

The suggestion that Mullis was solely responsible for the idea of using Taq polymerase in the PCR process has been contested by his co-workers at the time, who were embittered by his abrupt departure from Cetus.

As a result, some controversy surrounds the balance of credit that should be given to Mullis versus the team at Cetus.

In practice, credit has accrued to both the inventor and the company ( although not its individual workers ) in the form of a Nobel Prize and a $ 10, 000 Cetus bonus for Mullis and $ 300 million for Cetus when the company sold the patent to Roche Molecular Systems.

Later, Kary Mullis and other investigators at Cetus Corporation discovered this enzyme could be used in the polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) process for amplifying short segments of DNA, eliminating the need to add enzyme after every cycle of thermal denaturation of the DNA.

In the early 1980s, Kary Mullis was working at Cetus Corporation on the application of synthetic DNAs to biotechnology.

Other Cetus scientists, including Randall Saiki and Henry Erlich, were placed on PCR projects to work on developing HIV-and other tests utilizing PCR.

Cassiopeia, having boasted herself equal in beauty to the Nereids, drew down the vengeance of Poseidon, who sent an inundation on the land and a sea serpent, Cetus, which destroyed man and beast.

Perseus rescuing Andromeda from Cetus, depicted on an amphora in the Altes Museum, Berlin

Stephen Schmidt in 1970 introduced Astrology 14, a system with additional signs based on the constellations of Ophiuchus and Cetus.

The first installment, titled The Search for Cetus, was released first on floppy disk, then on CD-ROM with full speech.

In December 1999, U. S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that the 1990 patent involving Taq polymerase was issued, in part, on misleading information and false claims by scientists with Cetus Corporation.

In 1944, Perkin-Elmer entered the analytical-instruments business, and in the early 1990s, partnered with Cetus Corporation ( and later Hoffmann-La Roche ) to pioneer the polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) equipment industry.

Hoffmann-La Roche eventually bought the PCR and Taq patents from Cetus for $ 330 million, from which it may have received up to $ 2 billion in royalties.

It is found in a region often called the Sea due to its profusion of constellations with watery associations such as Cetus the whale, Pisces the fish and Eridanus the river.

To punish the queen for her arrogance, Poseidon, brother to Zeus and god of the sea, sent a sea monster named Cetus to ravage the coast of Aethiopia including the kingdom of the vain queen.

After he happened upon the chained Andromeda, he approached Cetus while invisible ( for he was wearing Hades's helm ), and killed the sea monster.

6th-century BCE Ancient Corinth | Corinthian vase depicting Andromeda, Perseus and Cetus.

Cetus () is a constellation.

Its name refers to Cetus, a sea monster in Greek mythology, although it is often called ' the whale ' today.

Cetus is located in the region of the sky that contains other water-related constellations such as Aquarius, Pisces, and Eridanus.

Although Cetus is not generally considered part of the zodiac, the ecliptic passes close to its constellation boundary, and thus the planets may be seen in Cetus for brief periods of time.

The most notable star in Cetus is Mira, designated Omicron Ceti, the first variable star to be discovered and the prototype of its class.

There are several other bright stars in Cetus.

Beta Ceti, also called Deneb Kaitos and Diphda, is the brightest star in Cetus.

Cetus lies far from the galactic plane, so that many distant galaxies are visible, unobscured by dust from the Milky Way.

NGC 246 ( Caldwell 56 ), also called the Cetus Ring, is a planetary nebula with a magnitude of 8. 0, 1600 light-years from Earth.

Cetus may have originally been associated with a whale, which would have had mythic status amongst Mesopotamian cultures.

It is often now called the Whale, though it is most strongly associated with Cetus the sea-monster, who was slain by Perseus as he saved the princess Andromeda from Poseidon's wrath.

Cetus is located in a region of the sky called " The Sea " because many water-associated constellations are placed there, including Eridanus, Pisces, Piscis Austrinus, Capricornus, and Aquarius.

Cetus has been depicted many ways throughout its history.

In the 17th century, Cetus was depicted as a " dragon fish " by Johannes Bayer.

Both Willem Jansson Blaeu and Cellarius depicted Cetus as a whale-like creature in the same century.

However, Cetus has also been variously depicted with animal heads attached to a piscine body.

The Brazilian Tukano and Kobeua people used the stars of Cetus to create a jaguar, representing the god of hurricanes and other violent storms.

USS Cetus ( AK-77 ) was a United States Navy Crater class cargo ship named after the constellation.

Cetus is Latin and is used in biological names to mean " whale "; its original meaning, " large sea animal ", was more general.