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In this intriguing paper published in PLOS ONE in June 2023, ACE researchers and their colleagues studied the association between chimerism and cancer across the tree of life. A chimera is an organism has that has cells from two or more genetically distinct sources. ...
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In this Perspective article in Nature Reviews Cancer, Carlo Maley and his colleague, Lucie Laplane, point out that there is much yet to understand about the many theories and models of cancer evolution in order to discover the best way to treat and prevent the...
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In this fascinating study in Scientific Reports, ACE researchers, Stefania Kapsetaki (now at Tufts University), Luis H. Cisneros and Carlo Maley trawled the literature to discover that cell-on-cell cannibalism is a behavior that occurs in both cancer cells and normal...
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Bird species that have small clutches tend to get less cancer than species that have large clutches. That’s the conclusion of an international team of scientists that includes several ACE researchers. The team studied the necropsy records of close to 6000...
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One of the most enjoyable experiences of ACE this year was to judge the Chandler school district science prizes. ACE awarded prizes and certificates to children in the senior, junior and elementary divisions for their work concerning life sciences and cancer...
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This easy to read article by ACE’s Amy M. Boddy, just published in European Journal of Epidemiology (2022), argues that even if we could understand all the mechanisms for cells to turn cancerous, it wouldn’t be enough to help us treat and avoid the...
