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Mimicking Cancer with Music
While the science behind cancer is complex, the essence of the disease can be elegantly expressed as music. Like musicians in a group, working together to produce a piece of music, different cells in our body work together to produce a living, breathing person. When...
Watch Patient Advocate describe her work with ACE
Chevas has been a patient advocate with ACE since it started. Find out why she loves her role!
ACE members help in response to COVID-19
ASU’s Biodesign clinical testing lab team has developed an automated system to test for COVID-19 using just plain saliva samples. It is testing hundreds of people daily from around the state. Two ACE doctoral students have been lending their expertise for months...
Revenge of the Somatic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80vc4G0ipi8&feature=youtu.be Watch this wonderful, fun video to the rap music of Baba Brinkman from his 2016 album, "The Rap Guide to Medicine" which was partly funded by Arizona State University! Read the story of the video...
When, why and how clonal diversity predicts future tumour growth – New research paper from ACE team member, Rob Noble
First published: 04 July 2020 in Evolutionary Applications https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13057 Authors: Robert Noble, John T Burley, Cécile Le Sueur, Michael E Hochberg Intratumour heterogeneity holds promise as a prognostic biomarker in multiple cancer types. However,...
Conversation with Athena Aktipis, Tuesday, May 26th, 9 am AZ time/ 12 pm EST
'Evolution in the flesh: How cancer cells evolve to cheat the foundations of multicellular cooperation and what this means for cancer treatment and prevention.' It's sure to be an interesting event - why not join in! Sign up here for the meeting...
ACE Intern wins PhD place at Johns Hopkins to study genetics
"I've learned such a lot from ACE about how research works and how to go through the research process. I've learnt you can't always trust every result; you have to make sure that you can prove it" says Kenna Sherman. Congratulations to Kenna Sherman who has just been...
Beating Cancer by Outsmarting Cells – Listen to Athena Aktipis on BUY Radio
Originally aired 2 April 2020. Hear the interview.
Rethinking how we view and manage cancer – new book
Published by Princeton University Press, March 2020 When we think of the forces driving cancer, we don’t necessarily think of evolution. But evolution and cancer are closely linked, for the historical processes that created life also created cancer. The Cheating Cell...
Cancer in African Wildlife
Just before Covid-19 struck and the world changed, 5 members of ACE flew to Nairobi to spend 10 days working with their collaborators from the Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) and the world-renowned Institute for Primate Research (IPR). Tara Harrison, Valerie Harris, Amy...
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