Yahoo News: How we found a new transmissible cancer in bullhead catfish (AUG 19, 2026)
Julie Dragon, Ph.D., Larner associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, described how UVM researchers used whole-genome sequencing to identify a rare transmissible cancer in bullhead catfish from Lake Memphremagog, a discovery that expands understanding of cancer in the animal kingdom.
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