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Bruce AMES, Prof. Emeritus | Cited by 129,804 | of University of California, Berkeley, CA (UCB) | Read 440 publications | Contact Bruce AMES
Bruce would always decline to practice, and I remember the lab members holding our watches and watching with wonderment as Bruce would always smoothly deliver the talk while finishing virtually exactly at the requested time. After introducing one new improvement to the Ames Test in the 1990’s, Bruce’s interests continue to evolve and diversify.
Bruce Ames, (born December 16, 1928, New York City, New York, U.S.), American biochemist and geneticist best known for his development of the Ames test for chemical mutagens. The test, introduced in the 1970s, assessed the ability of chemicals to induce mutations in the bacterium Salmonella typhimurium. Its sensitivity to carcinogenic ( cancer ...
About Dr. Ames. Dr. Ames is a Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley and most recently was a Senior Scientist at Childrens Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI), and director of their Nutrition & Metabolism Center. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and he was on their ...
Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Bruce N. Ames Date of Birth: 16 December 1928 Place of Birth: New York, New York Marital Status: Married to Professor Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames Two children Education: 1. Cornell University, B.A. Chemistry Major, Biology Minor 1946-1950 2.
Dr. Bruce Ames turned 92 on December 16, 2020. He considers his most recent work linking adequate consumption of 30 known vitamins and minerals with successful aging to be his most important contribution. With the passage of time, it is not uncommon for the accomplishments of a well-known scientist to undergo a parsimonious reductionism in the ...
Mar 22, 2021 · Bruce N. Ames in his office at UC Berkeley, 1976. I realize that the title of this new oral history, “Bruce N. Ames: The Marriage of Biochemistry and Genetics at Caltech, the NIH, UC Berkeley, and CHORI, 1954–2018,” can give the impression of a sequence of institutional histories framed by the life of one researcher; it’s really more about a certain type of scientific inquiry that ...
