School of Biological SciencesNewsSBS Professor Andrew Storfer and his lab group published in Science

SBS Professor Andrew Storfer and his lab group published in Science

“A transmissible cancer shifts from emergence to endemism in Tasmanian devils”, with recent SBS PhD graduate Austin Patton as first author!

This research has been picked up as a news story by a number of media outlets including:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/tasmanian-devils-claw-their-way-back-extinction

https://www.sciencemag.org/podcast/making-ecology-studies-replicable-and-turnaround-tasmanian-devil (podcast with the Devil story starting at the 12:40 mark)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/12/amazing-evolutionary-response-tasmanian-devil-gains-edge-in-battle-with-devastating-facial-cancer
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/12/gruesome-cancer-afflicting-tasmanian-devils-may-be-waning/
A highly contagious face cancer may not wipe out Tasmanian devils after all
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