How technology and new theory is advancing cancer research

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This fascinating and informative article, Taming cancer evolution surprises, by science journalist Vivien Marx is just published (Sept ’25) in Nature Methods.  It gives a good flavor of the multitude of new methods that geneticists, evolutionary biologists,...

Great podcast: What evolution teaches us about cancer, with Carlo Maley

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Listen to this fascinating, entertaining and accessible podcast where ACE leader, Carlo Maley, gives an overview of his research into how animals help us understand the development of human cancers and how evolutionary principles are about to be tested in people with...

Profile of Zachary Compton

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Read this great profile of post-doctoral ACE researcher, Zach Compton.  Zach is now at the University of Arizona.  We are so proud of Zach!

2025 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology

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The 2025 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) will take place in Barcelona, Spain, from August 17 to 22, 2025. Key dates:25 April 2025,  Call for Abstracts ends: 1 June 2025, Early bird registration ends; 2 June 2025, Regular Registration...

The relationship between diet, plasma glucose, and cancer prevalence across vertebrates

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In this intriguing research paper, recently published in Nature Communications, ACE researchers led by Stefania E. Kapsetaki and Carlo Maley show that, surprisingly, there is no significant link between diet and plasma sugar levels across nonhuman vertebrate species,...

ACE at 2025 Science Fairs

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February was was a busy month for the undergraduate students who participate in ACE outreach.  They helped children isolate DNA from strawberries and built cells out of goo and PlayDoh both at the Chandler Science and Innovation Fair and at ASU’s Open Door, the...