By Peter Jaret
From Juvenon
Well into his 70s, at a time when most of us would be content to settle in an easy chair and watch the world go by, biochemist Bruce Ames, Ph.D., shows no signs of slowing down. On the contrary. When he’s not dashing around the world to speak at scientific conferences, he’s scurrying between an office piled high with teetering stacks of research journals and the bustling research laboratory he directs at Children’s Hospital of Oakland Research Institute in Oakland, Calif. He’s a tall, slender, bespectacled man with the rumpled look of an Oxford don. Don’t let his age and appearance fool you, though. Ames has the drive and energy of a man half his years—and one possessed by a burning mission to boot.
