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Contagious cancers

Contagious cancers

Posted Jan 24, 2009 13:29 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Contagious cancers by corbet
Parent article: Beardless Bdale

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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