CANBERRA (Reuters) - Scientists have mapped the genome of Australia's endangered Tasmanian devil for the first time and found that deadly facial tumours decimating the species evolve very slowly, making it possible help might be found before the animals vanish forever.
Not only that, scientists at Australian National University said on Friday that their discovery, published in the journal PLoS Genetics, could help untangle the process of how human cancers evolve.
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