Thursday, 29 November 2007

Plucky little devil called Cedric offers hope for his species' future


Although I personally feel it's somewhat disrespectful to a fellow Aussie, it is nevertheless good news for the wildlife population...

A RAY of hope has appeared for the beleaguered Tasmanian devil, with the discovery that one of the marsupials has produced an immune response to the ghastly facial tumour disease.

Scientists who injected treated tumour cell lines into a young male devil called Cedric found, for the first time, that the animal produced a detectable antibody.

read more here

3 comments:

Marcel said...

Remko you can't edit my posts anonymously!!! (that is, you can - but not without me knowing who it is...)

Looks like you've grown quite a mo already, though! (or is that not you on the right?)

Remko said...

hehehe

Erin said...

Apparently Cedric is also prone to biting others over food squabbles, and also when mating!....Well that's what the article said.