Tasmanian devil cancer tied to 'immortal' girl
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
About 20 years ago, a female Tasmanian devil living in northeast Tasmania developed a facial tumor. When she eventually died, she left some of her cancer cells behind. Her tumor lived on to kill another day, and has been sweeping through the endangered Tasmanian devil population ever since.