ACE at Science Fairs

ACE at Science Fairs

February was was a busy month for the undergraduate students who participate in ACE outreach.  They helped children isolate DNA from strawberries and built cells out of goo and PlayDoh both at the Chandler Science and Innovation Fair and at ASU's Open Door, the annual...

Resistance Management for Cancer: Lessons from Farmers

Resistance Management for Cancer: Lessons from Farmers

Preventing cancer cells becoming resistant to treatment drugs is one of the trickiest problems facing oncologists, yet farmers have worked out ways to manage an analogous problem - controlling the development of resistance to chemicals by the pests in their fields. In...

Is chimerism associated with cancer across the tree of life?

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. ...

Cells eating other Cells – found across the tree of life!

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...

Birds species that lay more eggs get more cancer

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 birds...