The genome of the world's oldest continuously surviving cancer, a transmissible genital cancer that affects dogs, has been sequenced by scientists. This cancer, which causes grotesque genital tumours in dogs around the world, first arose in a single dog that lived about 11,000 years ago. The cancer survived after the death of this dog by the transfer of its cancer cells to other dogs during mating. The genome of this 11,000-year-old cancer carries about ...
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