Mimicking Cancer with Music

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...

ACE members help in response to COVID-19

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...

ACE Intern wins PhD place at Johns Hopkins to study genetics

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...

Rethinking how we view and manage cancer – new book

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...