Bruce N. Ames Online Lectures Series

There are 3 lectures hosted through VEOH.com. Please click on the links below to view the 3 lectures. These were organized to be viewed consecutively in a series.

1. Delaying the Degenerative Diseases of Aging
2. Accelerating the Degenerative Diseases of Aging
3. The Prevention of Cancer: Do Pesticides Play a Role?
To play the videos, click on the glowing blue 'play' button. These videos are streamed, which means that it may take some time for the media to download and play properly on your computer.
Alternatively, in due time, these lectures can be downloaded as full quicktime movie files for those who would like to view these lectures without an internet connection. When the files are properly uploaded, the links to these files will be posted on this page.

These lectures were recorded on an Apple Macintosh Computer using Ambrosia Software's SnapzProX. SnapzPro X records the desktop as it is viewed by the current user of the desktop. It gives the user the option of recording audio from the computer's microphone, for instance using a microphone to record the speaker as he or she moves the items on the desktop. Dr. Ames recorded himself speaking as he went through his Microsoft Powerpoint lecture files, as he normally would during any of his various on-site lectures. SnapzProX is only available on the Macintosh.

For online streaming, these files were broken up into about 10 minute sections, and were then posted onto VEOH.com's server. For more information on how to start your own account and to post your own lecture videos, please access and refer to VEOH.com.

Contact Information

Mailing Address:
Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI),
5700 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland CA 94609.
Phone: (510) 450-7625
CHORI E-mail: bames@chori.org

Recent News

November 2008

October 2008

  • A new web graphic of Gold, Ames & Slone uses a Margin of Exposure index to provide a broad perspective on possible cancer hazards from human exposures to chemicals that cause cancer in high dose rodent tests. Exposures include high historical exposures to workers, pharmaceuticals, natural chemicals in the average diet (e.g., natural pesticides that plants produce to defend themselves), air pollutants, food additives, and pesticide residues. Human exposure levels range from close to the rodent carcinogenic dose for a few historical exposures in the workplace to a billion times less the rodent carcinogenic dose for some pesticide residues. Human consumption of the background of natural chemicals in food is usually closer to the rodent carcinogenic dose than pesticide residues or pollutants, and half the natural chemicals tested are carcinogenic in high dose tests. Recent risk assessment methods indicate that for some chemicals the mechanism of carcinogenesis in rodents at high dose is not relevant to humans.

June 2008

  • The CHORI webpage news article on Killilea & Ames magnesium Study:
    read article
  • Ames & Killilea News Study listed in 'AFAR Grantee's In the News' list
    go to AFAR site

April 2008

October 2007

For information on symposium proceedings and media please go to the Second Annual International Bruce Ames Symposium Website held at UC Davis.

Downloadable Media

The downloadable media section is constantly being updated. You will find that some links are not yet available. We apologize for the inconvenience and request that you come back periodically, to check for future availability.

Among the items available for download is a high resolution TIFF formated photograph of Dr. Ames (300 dpi resolution, and a 7MB ZIP archive), and Dr. Ames' streamed video lectures.

Dr. Ames' publications are also available by request to students and colleagues.
To request copies of Dr. Ames' publications, please fill out this electronic form.
Dr. Ames current lecture abstract presented at CHORI, January 11, 2012 - Lecture Title: Vitamin and Mineral Inadequacy Accelerates Aging-Associated Diseases
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