Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor is a Transmissible Cancer

Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 18:30 in Health & Medicine

All the latest research points to the fact that the deadly DFTD is a transmissible cancer that originated in a female Tasmanian devil. A single cell in this devil (patient zero) developed into a cancer cell.

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