Contagious Cancer in Shellfish is Spreading Across the Atlantic

Tuesday, December 3, 2019 - 10:00 in Health & Medicine

Contagious cancers have only recently been discovered in shellfish, but now scientists have found the cancers have spread across the Atlantic Ocean and even into the Pacific. The new study was published in eLife. The CUIMC Newsroom interviewed Columbia University’s Stephen Goff, PhD, an expert in transmissible cancers and a co-author of the paper, to learn more about how cancer can … Continue reading Contagious Cancer in Shellfish is Spreading Across the Atlantic

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