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Scientists have discovered 5 more forms of transmissible Tasmanian devils cancer – FREE NEWS
An international team of geneticists has discovered that the Tasmanian devils transmissible cancer, DFTD, has five other forms
An international team of geneticists has discovered that the Tasmanian devils transmissible cancer, DFTD, has five other forms.
The generic term for Tasmanian devils’ cancer is DFTD. Previously, two variations of it were discovered: DFT1 and DFT2.
The proliferation of DFT1 and the second variation of DFT2 has put the Tasmanian devils on the brink of extinction. The disease began to spread among small marsupial predators around the mid-1990s, wiping out up to 95% of their population over the past…
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