For more than a decade, there's been something fishy going on in a lake that straddles Vermont and the province of Quebec. It involves cancer, a kind of catfish, and — possibly — clues about how tumors metastasize.
University of Cambridge professor Elizabeth Murchison and Peter Emerson of the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department scoop up catfish for testing in Newport, VT. Emerson was one of the researchers to publish a new paper in the journal Nature describing the first known transmissible cancer in fish.
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Rare contagious cancer discovered in wild catfish
Brown bullhead catfish melanoma represents a novel transmissible cancer - Nature
Hallan el primer cáncer contagioso entre peces, un extraño melanoma
Un tumor que se comporta como un par�sito: descubren un extra�o c�ncer que se propaga entre peces en un lago de Estados Unidos
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