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there's a famous dog cancer that was cultured a long time ago. It's cells are still used today because it became functionally immortal. Genetically it still is that dog, but it's basically like the cancer has seperated from the dog and just become its own organism. I believe there's a human version of this too IIRC

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there's a famous dog cancer that was cultured a long time ago. It's cells are still used today because it became functionally immortal. Genetically it still is that dog, but it's basically like the cancer has seperated from the dog and just become its own organism. I believe there's a human version of this too IIRC

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scie ... other-dogs
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arc ... es/595246/
More disturbing than anything on the space (besides black holes) somehow.

There is, however, one remarkable exception. A dog that was born 11,000 years ago stumbled across the elixir of life, and is still alive today. It didn’t find immortality through a diet of mung beans or daily doses of resveratrol. Instead, that ancient dog employed a more radical solution. Some of its cells became cancerous and invaded other dogs, and those dogs then spread its cells to still other dogs. That ancient dog lives on today in the bodies of countless dogs around the world today.

To clarify, several cancers can be caused by infectious entities; cervical cancer, for example, is the work of HPV, a sexually transmitted virus. But in those cases, the cancer itself is not infectious and cannot spread. CTVT is different: Each cancer cell is a free-living parasite that can set up another tumor on another dog. Among wild animals, there are only eight known examples of such transmissible tumors. Two grow on the faces of the unlucky Tasmanian devils. Five spread between shellfish. None are as ancient, prolific, or successful as CTVT.

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