Image courtesy of Save the Tasmanian Devil Program
A killer cancer that is threatening to wipe Tasmanian devils off the map for good has been spreading from an original infected female 15 years ago via live cancer cells, according to evidence from genome sequences of the cancer and the animal, published online Thursday in Cell . Finding out how this happened could help save this species from extinction and it could also prepare researchers for the unlikely event that a contagious cancer ever appeared in humans.
News
Visit our partner website Webhappenings.com for complete news articles and celebrity headlines.
Other stories from around the web:
<!--paging_filter-->
Today's pretty space pic, of the dark, cloudy center of the Omega Nebula, strikes our fancy due to its ominous scratchiness, like a beautiful cerulean and red painting marred by handfuls of dirt scraped across its surface. The nebula is about 5,000 light-years away, and is...
Grippier tires and—finally!—grippier seats mark the C6’s last full year of production.
Regular (and even irregular readers) already know this, so for those who are unfamiliar with this institution, an introduction: Hi, we’re Car and Driver, and we hate the seats in the Corvette. Today, Chevy’s...
Markets slide on reports of deadlock between France and Germany in talks over how to expand the eurozone bailout fund, making a resolution by this weekend's crucial summit increasingly unlikely.
Ford's unveiling of its revamped and more fuel-efficient Explorer to
blaring music and a crate-bursting stage debut Monday at Millennium Park
marks just the latest development in the automaker's history with
Chicago.
The 2011 model will be built at Chicago's South Side assembly plant, starting...
Familiar proportions will be applied to some new 3-series variants.
As we inch closer to the 2012 launch of the sixth-generation BMW 3-series, code-named F30, more details emerge—along with better spy shots. The photos seen here reveal a compact sedan that, visually, remains close to the current...
Racing fans likely have heard about the penalties NASCAR levied on the Hendrick Motorsports team of driver Jimmie Johnson and crew chief Chad Knaus, stemming from a car brought to the Daytona 500. Supposedly—despite the insistence from Hendrick that the car had passed inspection in 2011 with no...
The U.S. might be missing an opportunity to rein-in bulging waistlines, according to a new report that shows many obese teens put on extra weight as they grow up.
We’ve driven a bunch of 2012 Civics, including the Civic Si, so now it’s time to talk money. Prices for the 2012 Civic are largely unchanged from those of the 2011 models.
Honda has kept the cheapest version just as cheap, with the DX coupe starting at $16,355 with a manual, while its...
US politicians face a 'hot weekend' in Washington as the focus of financial markets turns squarely to the fraught talks aimed at preventing the American government defaulting on its debts.
Aston, Transformed: The British bulldog mashes up with the German zeppelin.
Since the arrival of the 2004 DB9, all successive Aston Martins from the V-8 Vantage coupe to the Rapide sedan have used the company’s VH (“vertical horizontal”) architecture. Developed during Ford’s ownership of Aston...