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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...
New ACE Undergrads
Welcome to our new ACE Interns and all the other undergraduate students who are working on our projects. We love having you with us! It's great just how many students have joined ACE - we have 11 formal interns and many more obtaining course credits. They are a really...
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: A Garden Shows That Cancer Is a Part of Life
Published on-line in Leonardo on March 16 2020. Pamela Winfrey, Caspian Robertson, Carlo Maley and Athena Aktipis. Endless Forms Most Beautiful is a crested cactus garden that embodies both an aesthetic and medically transformative approach to cancer. The cacti in...
Coffee at Beyond: The Multicellular Symphony – Cooperation, conflict, cancer and chimeras across the tree of life
3pm January 27 2021, Biodesign Auditorium Dr Steffi Kapsetaki Open to all.
Public Lecture: From Fish to FOMO
ACE, The Center for Evolution and Medicine, and the Biodesign Institute are delighted to host Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz for a public lecture on Thursday, January 16, 2020, 5 - 6:00 pm. The talk, titled From Fish to FOMO: How Social Media and the Ancient “Biology...
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