RIP Taz
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010An article in the New York Times this week described a disease threatening to destroy the tasmanian devil population that appears to actually be the second known case of a transmissible cancer. This is bad news for the tasmanian devils, of course–it appears that this disease may wipe them from the wild–but I was intrigued to see the confirmation of a idea that I had been pondering recently: whether or not cancers could act as a transmissible disease. (more…)
