{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Ames Test","description":"In 1973 biochemist Bruce Ames created a simple test that showed if chemicals had the potential to cause cancer. The Ames test made him a hero of the emerging environmental movement. But then he completely changed course and said concerns about chemicals were overblown. So what happened? Did Ames change? Or did our understanding of what causes cancer change? Featured Oral History  Bruce N. Ames, &quot;Bruce N. Ames: The Marriage of Biochemistry and Genetics at Caltech, the NIH, UC Berkeley, and CHORI, 1954\u20132018&quot; conducted by Paul Burnett in 2019 and 2020, Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2021. Credits Host:&amp;nbsp;Alexis Pedrick Senior Producer:&amp;nbsp;Mariel Carr Producer:&amp;nbsp;Rigoberto Hernandez Associate Producer: Sarah Kaplan Audio Engineer:&amp;nbsp;Jonathan Pfeffer \u201cColor Theme\u201d&amp;nbsp;composed by&amp;nbsp;Jonathan Pfeffer. Additional music&amp;nbsp;by&amp;nbsp;Blue Dot Sessions &amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"Distillations | Science History Institute","author_url":"https:\/\/www.sciencehistory.org\/stories\/distillations-pod\/","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/32047482\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/174218077"}