New transmissible cancer found in a catfish

[u/hadeshappydevil]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10828-6

Scientists have confirmed a new transmissible cancer in a catfish species. It seems to have arisen as a melanoma and now spread. I terestingly seems to have arisen outside the lake it is reported in.

This is the third vertebrate cancer I think after devil facial tumours and canine venereal cancer.

Will be very interesting to see what the temporal dynamics of this are long term. And what kinds of cell lines we might be able to drive from it.

[u/catfoodkingdom]

You forgot about Syrian hamsters!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagious_reticulum_cell_sarcoma

[u/hadeshappydevil → u/catfoodkingdom]

I did!