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# Cetus Corporation
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/cetus-corporation/
- Published: 1999-01-02T13:25:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-02T01:45:12.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization

**Cetus Corporation** was an American biotechnology company based in Emeryville, California. It is described as the first biotechnology company.[\[1\]](#fn1)

Kary Mullis pioneered the use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) while working at Cetus.[\[2\]](#fn2)

## History

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

## External links

- [Campfire Wiki](https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=pharmaceutical%5Fcompanies:cetus%5Fcorporation)
- [Housatonic](https://sites.google.com/housatonicits.com/home0004/research/cetus-corp)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetus%5FCorporation)
- Wikispooks

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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](https://archive.ph/2022.02.19-033058/https://ethw.org/First-Hand:Starting%5FUp%5FCetus,%5Fthe%5FFirst%5FBiotechnology%5FCompany%5F-%5F1973%5Fto%5F1982) [↩︎](#fnref1)
2. Rabinow, P. (1996). *Making PCR: a story of biotechnology.* University Of Chicago Press. <https://archive.org/details/makingpcrstoryof00rabi/mode/1up> [↩︎](#fnref2)