Bruce Ames

Bruce Nathan Ames ( born December 16, 1928 in New York City ) is an American professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, researchers at Children 's Hospital of Oakland Research Institute ( CHORI ) and was director of the " National Institute of Environmental Health Science" at the University of California, Berkeley. He explored the link between folate deficiency and damage to DNA and chromosomes, which can lead to cancer and other diseases. In the 1970s, Ames invented the eponymous Ames test.

Work

Ames succeeded in 1971 to develop a test since then much used for mutagenicity ( Ames test). He identified many carcinogenic substances, and it was found that often existed the structure of heterocyclic amines.

Ames has long been working on the investigation of the relationship between the supply of micronutrients and the human cell metabolism.

In a review article he claims that high-dose vitamin therapy can cure or relieve some 50 human genetic diseases. Ames continues to claim that deficits in the supply of vitamins and minerals are responsible for the development of cancer. Also, lack of essential fatty acids carry with to accelerate the degenerative decline.

In 1999, Ames along with Tory M. Hagen Juvenon Inc., a company that offers both directly and through its channel partners to purchase nutritional supplements today. At the same time founded Ames and his wife, the Bruce and Giovanna Ames Foundation, a foundation, the Ames shares Juvenon Inc. have been transferred and one of their activities, to fund scientific work with his participation. Today, he works at Juvenon Inc., both in management and as a scientific advisor. In the past he has repeatedly assured to receive from the Company any payment.

Positioning for supplementation

Together with Joyce McCann, Meir Stampfer, and Walter C. Willett wrote Ames 2007 an open letter to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in which the NIH decision is criticized recognize only evidence of efficacy in dietary supplements for health prevention, controlled on randomized, trials (RCTs ) are based. The authors advocate a general recommendation of the NIH for supplementation, even without such evidence of efficacy. Dietary supplements are cheap, available and non-toxic, thus at least " good insurance ".

Awards

Ames received more than 25 scientific awards. In 1983 he was awarded the Charles S. Mott Prize and the Gairdner Foundation International Award, in 1997 with the Japan Prize, 1998 with the National Medal of Science in 2001 with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Microbiology and 2004 with the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal honored. He was a member of, among others, the " National Cancer Advisory Board" ( at the suggestion of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter ) and the "American Heart Association Nutrition Committee ." Since 2013 it is one of Thomson Reuters due to the number of its citations to favorites to a Nobel Prize (Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ).

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