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Cancer is often treated with high doses of chemotherapy, but is that the best path? In a recent paper in Nature Ecology and Evolution, ACE member Rob Noble and co-author Yannick Viossat say No. They combine extensive mathematical analysis and numerical simulations to...
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Though cancer in elephants is rare, it does sometimes occur – more often in Asian elephants than in the 2 species of elephants found in Africa. This fascinating study by ACE members published May 2021 in Molecular Biology and Evolution explains why, and makes...
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Carlo Maley and Paul Davies feature in 2 recent podcasts in this series. Take a listen! A Cancer Cell’s Advantage: Evolutionary Forces and Cancer Therapy Cancer Development and Genetic Insights – An In-Depth Examination of Cancer Cells in the Human Body...
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Sir Paul Nurse, Director of the Crick Institute, London, is a Nobel prizewinning geneticist, former President of The Royal Society and of Rockerfeller University, and is Chief Scientific Advisor to the European Union. He will deliver the 2021 Beyond Annual Lecture...
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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...
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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...
