Cancer cells transmissible sarcoma dogs are transmitted among animals for 11 thousand years, i.e. constitute an ancient cell line on the Ground.

This is the conclusion of scientists who read the genome of cancer cells, isolated from 2 dogs from Brazil and Australia. A study published in Science, briefly about it can be found on the web site of the journal.

DNA sequencing sarcoma has shown that cells from the time of his own malignant degeneration have accumulated almost 2 million mutations. The proteins encoded by 10 thousands of genes occurred changes in amino acid
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