Transmissible cancers in cockles — marine cancers that can spread through the water — have been sequenced for the first time, unearthing new insight into how these cancers have spread across animal ...

Better water quality in Wales’ most famous cockle area is linked with smaller cockles that have a higher mortality rate, a new survey of fifty years of data has revealed. Cockles have been harvested ...

The cancer likely started off as an immune cell that mutated, multiplied and adapted to survive in the water. By Carl Zimmer In the 1970s, soft-shell clams started mysteriously dying off in Maine and ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...