Bruce N. Ames Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 5 pages of information about the life of Bruce N. Ames.

Bruce N. Ames Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 5 pages of information about the life of Bruce N. Ames.
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Bruce N. Ames is a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California at Berkeley. He is best known for the development of a test used as an indicator of the carcinogenicity (cancer-causing potential) of chemicals. Known as the Ames test, it measures the rate of mutation in bacteria after the introduction of a test substance. Ames' research led to a greater appreciation of the role of genetic mutation in cancer and facilitated the testing of suspected cancer-causing chemicals. He also developed a data base of chemicals that cause cancer in animals, listing their degree of virulence. Ames has been involved in numerous controversies involving scientific and environmental policies relevant to cancer prevention. In the 1970s he vociferously advocated strict government control of synthetic chemicals. In the 1980s, however, the discovery that many natural substances were also mutagenic (causing gene mutation), and thus possibly cancer...

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