ACE research featured at general science conference

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We had great talks and discussions about cancer at a conference in Cetraro, Italy in last week (May 2026).  John Mattick discussed non-coding DNA  which constitutes almost all the DNA in our genome and plays an important role in regulation, yet was formally thought to...

Major Breakthrough in Predicting Cancer Outcomes

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Members of ACE are part of an international team that has created a cost efficient method to accurately predict the trajectory of a person’s cancer. It shows that some cancers, or pre-cancers, may be present for many years or even decades before causing any...

How technology and new theory is advancing cancer research

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This fascinating and informative article, Taming cancer evolution surprises, by science journalist Vivien Marx is just published (Sept ’25) in Nature Methods.  It gives a good flavor of the multitude of new methods that geneticists, evolutionary biologists,...

Great podcast: What evolution teaches us about cancer, with Carlo Maley

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Listen to this fascinating, entertaining and accessible podcast where ACE leader, Carlo Maley, gives an overview of his research into how animals help us understand the development of human cancers and how evolutionary principles are about to be tested in people with...

Profile of Zachary Compton

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Read this great profile of post-doctoral ACE researcher, Zach Compton.  Zach is now at the University of Arizona.  We are so proud of Zach!

The relationship between diet, plasma glucose, and cancer prevalence across vertebrates

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In this intriguing research paper, recently published in Nature Communications, ACE researchers led by Stefania E. Kapsetaki and Carlo Maley show that, surprisingly, there is no significant link between diet and plasma sugar levels across nonhuman vertebrate species,...