Litter size relates to cancer risk; body mass and longevity do not

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Why are some species of mammals more vulnerable to cancer than others?  It’s an important question since the answers may guide us to new understandings of cancer development in humans.  In a careful analysis of 42 years of necropsy data from San Diego Zoo and...

Bird size with dinosaur-level cancer defences: can evolutionary lags during miniaturisation explain cancer robustness in birds?

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Fascinating preprint  by ACE members E. Yagmu Erten, Marc Tollis, Hanna Kokko: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.22.345439v1 An increased appreciation of the ubiquity of cancer risk across the tree of life means we also need to understand the more robust...

Capturing Cancer with Music

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This is an application, called Hyena, for hearing how cancer (and cancer therapy) works. While there is an overwhelming complexity in the science and medicine of cancer, the essence of the disease can be heard and understood when it is translated into music. Here you...

Watch Patient Advocate describe her work with ACE

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Chevas Samuels has been a patient advocate with ACE since it started. Find out why she loves her role!

ACE members help in response to COVID-19

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ASU’s Biodesign clinical testing lab team has developed an automated system to test for COVID-19 using just plain saliva samples.  It is testing hundreds of people daily from around the state.  Two ACE doctoral students have been lending their expertise for months...

Revenge of the Somatic

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  Watch this wonderful, fun video to the rap music of Baba Brinkman from his 2016 album, “The Rap Guide to Medicine” which was partly funded by Arizona State University!  Read the story of the video genesis here: ...