Bruce Ames

Bruce Nathan Ames (December 16, 1928 – October 5, 2024) was an American biochemist. He was a professor of biochemistry and Molecular Biology Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a senior scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI). Ames was known for his works about mechanisms of mutagenesis and DNA repair. He invented the Ames test. He was born in New York City.

Ames died on October 5, 2024 at a hospital in Berkeley, California from problems caused by a fall at the age of 95.

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 University of California biography
 Oral History from his time at the National Institutes of Health 
 Oral History: “Bruce N. Ames: The Marriage of Biochemistry and Genetics at Caltech, the NIH, UC Berkeley, and CHORI, 1954–2018  
 Special issue of Mutation Research Journal Dedicated to Dr. Ames


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