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....
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...
Instead of battling cancer, some cactus breeds adapt. Arizona State University researchers wonder if humans can, too. Read more in Phoenix Magazine! https://www.phoenixmag.com/2019/03/15/the-cactus-cure/
https://player.mediaamp.io/p/U8-EDC/1NdtkAtDkeFO/embed/select/media/AhjSWHNgTN9R?form=html Jennifer Doudna’s talk, The Future of Gene Editing: The Sweeping Implications of CRISPR Biology was a great success! The auditorium was packed with lots of audience...
ACE researcher, Athena Aktipis, will give a public talk on the ubiquity of cancer among all multicellular life on March 27th, from 4-5pm at the Biodesign Institute Auditorium. Join us for the talk, and the reception that follows on the patio of Biodesign C, to...
Core Concept: Solving Peto’s Paradox to better understand cancer was published yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). Read here: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/6/1825 Image credit:...
