Cancer and the Nature of Life Series – Michael Metzger’s talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaec1ETs0hE&t=4s Watch to discover the latest findings on cancer cells that behave like free-living organisms! Brief abstract: Cancer is not normally contagious, but in some cases, cancer can jump from one individual to another. In...
Watch Cancer and the Nature of Life Series
See this amazing talk: 'The Electric Life of Cancer' presented by Mike Levin with commentator, Paul Davies. Brief abstract: People once believed electricity was the spark of life. Now it’s been discovered that electrical effects do in fact help shape bodies and...
Cancer and the Nature of Life
Our monthly public discussion series, Cancer and the Nature of Life got off to a great start - Marc Tollis and Carlo Maley discussed: Why Whales and Elephants Rarely Get Cancer - a Genetic Detective Story. Watch it here. Our next episode is on Friday 18th March...
Most Tumors in Snakes are Cancerous
This study, A Multi-Institutional Collaboration to Understand Neoplasia, Treatment and Survival of Snakes, is just published in the journal Animals (January 21 2022). Although snakes seem to have more tumors than other species of reptiles studied, nothing much is...
Why Some Species of Animals Get More Cancer Than Others – Exciting new paper!
Writing in the journal Nature in a paper titled Cancer Risk Across Mammals, ACE researchers and their collaborators discuss why cancer rates are higher in some species than others. It seems to have a lot to do with diet, with meat eaters having more cancer than...
Congratulations to Daniel Chavez!
Daniel is a post-doctoral researcher with ACE and he has just won a Carol and Jim Patton Award for Outstanding Latin American Graduate Student of Mammalogy Award from the American Society of Mammologists! Well done Daniel!
Spatial Structure Governs the Mode of Tumour Evolution
Knowing how tumors evolve would be very useful to clinicians trying to predict the spread of cancer and the likely success of different therapies. New mathematical models developed by Robert Noble and his colleagues should...
Another Big Win for Artwork
‘In Search of Chemozoa’ has received the Best Film 2021 Award @SigmaXiSociety STEM Art and Film Festival. Sigma Xi is one of the oldest and largest scientific organizations in the world. Congratulations to Vicky Isley and Paul Smith aka boredomresearch! This win...
Recruiting Undergraduate Research Students
The Arizona Cancer Evolution Center (ACE) is excited to recruit undergraduate students to its ACE Scholars research program for Spring 2022. Motivated undergraduates from a diverse set of backgrounds and skill sets who would like to pursue research projects at the...
In Search of Chemozoa – free exhibition
This wonderful artwork will be screened between Nov 7th 2021 until January 2022 at the Sigma Xi STEM Art and Film Festival, taking place online during their annual conference. Registration to attend the STEM Art and Film festival is free. Further details about the...