—How and Why Mutagenicity Testing Became a Part of Environmental Science and Regulation since the 1970s.— The Ames test was developed in the early 1970s by Bruce N. Ames (1928–2024) to detect whether chemicals cause genetic mutations in bacteria. It...
The editorial team
The editorial team of Sabers en acció (@sabersaccio) is made up of research and teaching staff from the Institut Interuniversitari López Piñero (IILP) and the Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT), as well as many other scholars from other academic institutions and research centres dedicated to the history of science, technology and medicine.
