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 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 coordinated by...
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...
