Scientists found the fourth type of transmissible cancer, and the first in a fish: a melanoma whose tumor cells spread ...
The first-ever transmissible cancer to spread among fish in a freshwater setting has been discovered among brown bullhead ...
The cancer manifests as raised black lesions on the fish’s skin, along with lumpy tumors. The cause has long eluded ...
For more than a decade, anglers fishing Lake Memphremagog, which spans the Vermont-Quebec border, have been pulling up brown bullhead catfish covered in strange black lesions. Now, scientists say they ...
A new study revealed contagious cancer in fish, marking the first such case ever documented in freshwater species.
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First transmissible cancer found in freshwater fish in Canada-U.S. lake
The cancer poses no known health risk to humans.
For many years now, anglers have been catching brown bullhead in Lake Memphremagog that are riddled with lesions and tumors.
Transmissible tumors have been reported in a handful of animal species, but never before among fish. Is it possible in humans ...
A team of Vermont researchers has discovered that mysterious black skin lesions afflicting catfish in Lake Memphremagog and ...
Researchers have discovered a contagious cancer in catfish – just the fourth example of tumour cells that spread naturally ...
Discovery sheds light on how cancer can spread in the wild, raising questions about where the cancer originated, and how it ...
A study by UVM researchers concludes that black spots are caused by a form of cancer that the fish can catch from each other.
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