Cancer in African Wildlife

Featured news, News

Just before Covid-19 struck and the world changed, 5 members of ACE flew to Nairobi to spend 10 days working with their collaborators from the Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) and the world-renowned Institute for Primate Research (IPR). Tara Harrison, Valerie Harris, Amy...

New ACE Undergrads

Featured news, News, Outreach

Welcome to our new ACE Interns and all the other undergraduate students who are working on our projects. We love having you with us! It’s great just how many students have joined ACE – we have 11 formal interns and many more obtaining course credits. They...

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: A Garden Shows That Cancer Is a Part of Life

Outreach, Research Papers

Published on-line in Leonardo on March 16 2020. Pamela Winfrey, Caspian Robertson, Carlo Maley and Athena Aktipis. Endless Forms Most Beautiful is a crested cactus garden that embodies both an aesthetic and medically transformative approach to cancer. The cacti in...

The Evolution of Human Cancer Gene Duplications across Mammals – Preprint

Research Papers

New study sheds light on many aspects of the evolution of cancer suppression in mammals. Published in bioRxiv (the preprint server for biology) on March 5 2020. Marc Tollis, Aika K. Schneider-Utaka, Carlo C. Maley. Abstract Cancer is caused by genetic alterations that...

Cancer and Embryo Development Workshop, 17-18 January 2020, Tempe

Archive Events, Professional Workshops

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...