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I heard it on the news last night and here it is also mentioned in this article
Devil
quote from the above article;
The results from these studies clearly showed that Tasmanian devils failed to recognise cells from other devils as different. This provides strong evidence that a lack of genetic diversity contributes to why the cancer is infectious. When a healthy devil is infected with a devil facial tumour from another animal, the infected devil’s immune system assumes that the new cancer cells are the same as its own cells and will not reject it.
Devil
quote from the above article;
The results from these studies clearly showed that Tasmanian devils failed to recognise cells from other devils as different. This provides strong evidence that a lack of genetic diversity contributes to why the cancer is infectious. When a healthy devil is infected with a devil facial tumour from another animal, the infected devil’s immune system assumes that the new cancer cells are the same as its own cells and will not reject it.
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