In a handful of animals, tumors can be transmitted like infectious diseases or parasites, defying science’s tidy definitions

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Scientists have found smallpox viruses in the remains of people in Chile from around 500 years ago, revealing how the virus may have evolved into a global killer.

Whole-genome sequencing analysis of tumour and matched non-tumour host tissues of the brown bullhead catfish reveals a type of naturally occurring transmissible cancer.

Transmissible tumors have been reported in a handful of animal species, but never before among fish. Is it possible in humans?

Abstract. The evolutionary history of simian and prosimian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs and pSIVs) remains difficult to resolve, because divergence-time

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A fatal form of cancer is spreading between animals in the marine environment as a clonal horizontally transmissible cell, likely derived from a single original clam.

Bivalve transmissible neoplasias (BTNs) are transmissible cancers that have arisen in multiple bivalve species, including Eastern soft-shell clam (...