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Two ancient humans, including famed 'Iceman,' had cancer-causing virus
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YerdELZuEhY (Clint's Reptiles "Not All Dogs Have Bones")
A bit of a dry subject to be sure, but I had never heard of infectious cancers before.
In summary: a lot of information on how canines are related to each other. With a short segment how there is an infectious cancer found on dogs that is genetically different from any existing breed and as such could be considered it's own species.
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to lose the features that define it as a subunit of tissue.
in this case warts, or tumour cells may be transplanted during surgery, to a person that has nicked themselves with a scalpel or other such instrument, it is not impossible for a technician to have this happen while preparing a biopsy.
the way a virus promotes cancer is by inserting, into genetic locus [address] that is close enough to the start of an "oncogene" that cancer results.
Diagnostic dilemma: A surgeon accidentally transplanted a tumor into his own hand
https://www.livescience.com/health/cancer/diagnostic-dilemma...
biological development is a strange bird, for example a tumour with promiscuous histocompatability, that is still "a dog" from a genetic perspective.