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Contagious cancersContagious cancersPosted Jan 24, 2009 2:42 UTC (Sat) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: Beardless Bdale by jd Parent article: Beardless Bdale Getting way off topic, but what the heck... The way the guy explained it at the event, the cancers themselves are contagious. In particular, the tumor cells are not the victim's cells; they come from outside. The lack of genetic diversity in the devil population makes that sort of propagation possible. It's weird (and nasty) stuff.
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Contagious cancers Posted Jan 24, 2009 13:29 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
This is not unique. There is a contagious cancer of dogs that's still
going: because it's non-lethal it's kept going more successfully, and is still hopping from dog to dog perhaps a thousand years after its progenitor died.
Yes, mammalian cell, you too can be an immortal unicellular organism.
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