"Glimmer of hope": A Tasmanian devil colony displays possible immunity to deadly facial tumor disease

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 13:21 in Health & Medicine

Nearly 70 percent of the world's Tasmanian devils ( Sarcophilus harrisii ) have been killed in the past 10 years by an infectious cancer called devil facial tumor disease (DFTD). So far, no cure has...

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