MEDICAL: DISESASES: CANCER : ANIMALS: TASMANIAN DEVILS : COUNTRIES: AUSTRALIA: Scientists Discover Origin of a Cancer in Tasmanian Devils

[David P. Dillard]

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MEDICAL: DISESASES: CANCER :
ANIMALS: TASMANIAN DEVILS :
COUNTRIES: AUSTRALIA:
Scientists Discover Origin of a Cancer in Tasmanian Devils

Scientists Discover Origin of a Cancer in Tasmanian Devils
By CARL ZIMMER
Published: December 31, 2009
New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/science/01devil.html>

The Tasmanian devil, the spaniel-size marsupial found on the Australian
island of Tasmania, has been hurtling toward extinction in recent years,
the victim of a bizarre and mysterious facial cancer that spreads like a
plague.

Now Australian scientists say they have discovered how the cancer
originated. The finding, being reported Friday in the journal Science,
sheds light on how cancer cells can sometimes liberate themselves from the
hosts where they first emerged. On a more practical level, it also opens
the door to devising vaccines that could save the Tasmanian devils.

Its a great paper, said Katherine Belov, a geneticist at the University of
Sydney who was not involved in the study. Previously, we were stumbling in
the dark.

The cancer, devils facial tumor disease, is transmitted when the animals
bite one anothers faces during fights. It grows rapidly, choking off the
animals mouth and spreading to other organs. The disease has wiped out 60
percent of all Tasmanian devils since it was first observed in 1996, and
some ecologists predict that it could obliterate the entire wild
population within 35 years.

Science 1 January 2010:
Vol. 327. no. 5961, pp. 84 - 87
DOI: 10.1126/science.1180616

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