Contagious Cancer: Genome Study Reveals How Tasmanian Devil Cancer Has Spread

Image courtesy of Save the Tasmanian Devil Program A killer cancer that is threatening to wipe Tasmanian devils off the map for good has been spreading from an original infected female 15 years ago via live cancer cells, according to evidence from genome sequences of the cancer and the animal, published online Thursday in Cell . Finding out how this happened could help save this species from extinction and it could also prepare researchers for the unlikely event that a contagious cancer ever appeared in humans. [More]

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Contagious Cancer: Genome Study Reveals How Tasmanian Devil Cancer Has Spread