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Gregor Mendel is known as the father of genetics who was born 200 years ago in July 1822. His life as a catholic Abbott and meticulous studies with pea plants are described in this radio documentary by ACE’s Pauline Davies
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Watch to discover the latest findings on cancer cells that behave like free-living organisms! Brief abstract: Cancer is not normally contagious, but in some cases, cancer can jump from one individual to another. In the case of contagious leukemia-like cancers in clams...
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See this amazing talk: ‘The Electric Life of Cancer’ presented by Mike Levin with commentator, Paul Davies. Brief abstract: People once believed electricity was the spark of life. Now it’s been discovered that electrical effects do in fact help shape...
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Our monthly public discussion series, Cancer and the Nature of Life got off to a great start – Marc Tollis and Carlo Maley discussed: Why Whales and Elephants Rarely Get Cancer – a Genetic Detective Story. Watch it here. Our next episode is on Friday...
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This study, A Multi-Institutional Collaboration to Understand Neoplasia, Treatment and Survival of Snakes, is just published in the journal Animals (January 21 2022). Although snakes seem to have more tumors than other species of reptiles studied, nothing much is...
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Writing in the journal Nature in a paper titled Cancer Risk Across Mammals, ACE researchers and their collaborators discuss why cancer rates are higher in some species than others. It seems to have a lot to do with diet, with meat eaters having more cancer than...
