News
Coffee at Beyond: The Multicellular Symphony – Cooperation, conflict, cancer and chimeras across the tree of life
3pm January 27 2010, Biodesign Auditorium Dr Steffi Kapsetaki Open to all.
Public Lecture: From Fish to FOMO
ACE, The Center for Evolution and Medicine, and the Biodesign Institute are delighted to host Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz for a public lecture on Thursday, January 16, 2020, 5 - 6:00 pm. The talk, titled From Fish to FOMO: How Social Media and the Ancient “Biology...
Evolutionary Research to Treat Cancer Patients Reported in Wall Street Journal
Research by ACE members, Carlo Maley and Athena Aktipis, is the focus of a story in the Wall Street Journal. The article describes how adaptive therapy (not attempting to wipe out all cancer cells but to hold them at bay) is about to be trialed on metastatic breast...
ACE Holds First Bootcamp
We've just held our first week-long boot camp to demonstrate the research methods used by ACE. 16 attendees (mostly post-grads and post-docs) came to Arizona State University from across Europe and the US. Mornings were spent in tutorials by members of ACE...
Student Work on ACE and Cancer Research
This past semester, students from Paul and Pauline Davies' Science and Health Communcations (HON 494) class have written articles on cancer research. These reports include work done by ACE as well as Carl Fink, a professor at the University of Minnesota who's using...
Dancing for Science: Cancer Research Uses Human Bodies as Models
In our Health and Science Communication class at ASU, students were lucky enough to have a visit from renowned science and dance specialist, Carl Flink, who opened our eyes to new ways of viewing our research. Students Leah Jameson...
Ace Visits DISCOVERoom at a Phoenix Elementary School
ACE team members were delighted to work with the lunchtime science club in the DISCOVERoom at Kyrene de la Colina Elementary School in Phoenix before the leadup to their summer holidays. The DISCOVERoom is a wonderful resource for the kids; it is...
ACE Students Go on Lab Exchange
Our intern at UCSB, Kenna Sherman, who has been working with Amy Boddy, visited ACE in Josh Shiffman's lab along with new PhD student Zachary Compton at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Utah. They went to learn how to perform DNA damage response essays....
Why whales don’t get as much cancer: clues for human disease
New research paper from ACE Whales don't get nearly as much cancer as their large size would predict so a team from ACE investigated why. Their genomic analysis reveals that as whale increased in size during evolutionary history, their cancer defense mechanisms...
Cactus Garden Featured in Phoenix Magazine!
Instead of battling cancer, some cactus breeds adapt. Arizona State University researchers wonder if humans can, too. Read more in Phoenix Magazine! https://www.phoenixmag.com/2019/03/15/the-cactus-cure/
Events
Cancer and Embryo Development Workshop, 17-18 January 2020, Tempe
It has been known for some decades that there is a deep link between tumorigenesis and embryo development. Many of the hallmarks of cancer are also hallmarks of early-stage development: angiogenesis, hypoxia, cell motility, tissue invasion, stemness. It has even been...
Coffee at Beyond: The Multicellular Symphony – Cooperation, conflict, cancer and chimeras across the tree of life
3pm January 27 2010, Biodesign Auditorium Dr Steffi Kapsetaki Open to all.
Public Lecture: From Fish to FOMO
ACE, The Center for Evolution and Medicine, and the Biodesign Institute are delighted to host Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz for a public lecture on Thursday, January 16, 2020, 5 - 6:00 pm. The talk, titled From Fish to FOMO: How Social Media and the Ancient “Biology...
KJZZ Interview with Athena Aktipis and Carlo Maley – Cactus Garden and Cancer Adaptive Therapy
KJZZ’s Mark Brodie talks to Athena Aktipis and Carlo Maley in the cancer cactus garden at ASU. They discuss how strangely-formed, crested cacti (fasciated) not only look amazing but are reminiscent of cancer, reminding us that that the disease is present in all multi-cellular life. Aktipis and Maley’s research is pointing the way to clinical trials of ‘adaptive therapy’ for metastatic cancer, whereby ‘nicer’ cancer cells are deliberately kept alive to keep the ‘nasties’ in check – a potentially more effective treatment than aggressive chemotherapy.
Tracing the deep Evolutionary Roots of Cancer workshop
Mon-Wed, April 23-25, 2018 Scottsdale. Cancer represents a breakdown in the regulatory mechanisms that mediate the relationship between individual cells and the organism as a whole, a relationship that dates back to the dawn of multicellularity over a billion years...
