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ZME Science reports on a Nature article (full article is paywalled) (DOI: 10.1038/nature18599) about a disease called disseminated neoplasia. The disease is a group of cancers which are thought to spread via seawater. They affect mussels, cockles, and golden carpet shell clams.
Among mussels and cockles, the cancer cells come from the same species, but the cancer infecting golden carpet shell clams comes from a different species, Venerupis corrugata , the pullet carpet shell.
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 30 2016, @10:26AM
Keep your cock or clam away from seawater.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 30 2016, @10:39AM
Also keep your tasmanian devil away from tasmanian devils.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday June 30 2016, @04:44PM
post is actually on-topic, as tasmanian devils also suffer from a contagious non-viral cancer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 30 2016, @09:48PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_transmissible_venereal_tumor [wikipedia.org] - Supposedly 5000+ years old. It is the HeLa cell like of dog tumors, and apparently still out in the wild (although rare.)
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 30 2016, @10:42AM
Your clam will be fine as long as you're not blonde.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 30 2016, @10:47AM
If you are blonde you could just shave your carpet.