Article 5BGD1 Tasmanian Devils May Overcome Transmissible Cancer That Nearly Wiped Them Out

Tasmanian Devils May Overcome Transmissible Cancer That Nearly Wiped Them Out

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Ed Cara on Earther, shared by Brian Kahn to Gizmod
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A new study out Thursday suggests that Tasmanian devils are starting to adapt to one of the strangest diseases known in nature: a contagious cancer spread by biting. The study has found evidence that the disease is spreading more slowly and becoming endemic in the devil population, rather than the very fatal and...

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