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    Clever devils coexisting with cancer

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/531-clever-devils-coexisting-with-cancer
    15 Feb 2018: The deadly devil facial tumour disease (DFTD) affecting Tasmanian devils has triggered evolutionary responses in the species which may help them to coexist with the cancer, new research has found. Researchers from Australia and France reviewed the
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    Darwin and the devil’s plight: is natural selection finding a way to…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2020/darwin-and-the-devils-plight-is-natural-selection-finding-a-way-to-combat-cancer
    30 Sep 2020: Research into the deadly cancer affecting Tasmanian devils has found the marsupials are mounting their natural defence against the disease. An international team from Australia, the US, United Kingdom and France has analysed the natural adaptations
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    Deadly disease can ‘hide’ from a Tasmanian devil’s immune system

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/223-deadly-disease-can-hide-from-a-tasmanian-devils-immune-system
    4 Jan 2017: The Tasmanian devil facial tumour (DFT) cells may use a molecular deception – common in human cancers – that could allow the deadly disease to avoid the animal’s immune system, according to our new research published this month. Recently it
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    Devilish problem closer to being solved

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/245-devilish-problem-closer-to-being-solved
    9 Mar 2017: An international study involving multiple institutions over six years has shown that immunotherapy can cure Tasmanian devils of the deadly devil facial tumour disease (DFTD). The research was led by the University of Tasmania’s Menzies Institute
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    Dr Eric Guiler Tasmanian Devil Research Grants awarded

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/dr-eric-guiler-tasmanian-devil-research-grants-awarded
    15 Jul 2021: The fight to secure the future for the iconic Tasmanian devil has received a timely boost, with leading scientists being awarded more than $300,000 in research grants. These funds have been made possible due to generous donors to the Save the
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    Immunised devils fighting cancer from within

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/543-immunised-devils-fighting-cancer-from-within
    22 Feb 2018: A new study has found more than 95 per cent of Tasmanian devils immunised prior to being released into the wild have generated a robust antibody response to the deadly devil facial tumour disease (DFTD). Lead author Dr Ruth Pye from the University
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    Interest in Uni piqued at Agfest

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2022/interest-in-uni-piqued-at-agfest
    2 Sep 2022: What do Tasmanian devils, drones, compost, video games and microscopes have in common? They were all found inside the University of Tasmania Pavilion at Agfest this year. More than 12,000 people visited the University’s new location nestled in one
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    Joining forces to fight cancer

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/609-joining-forces-to-fight-cancer
    17 May 2018: The University of Tasmania has joined an international research partnership designed to better understand the role of cancer in ecological and evolutionary processes. The University will collaborate with a group of French research institutions and
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    On the trail of the London thylacines

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/573-on-the-trail-of-the-london-thylacines
    9 Apr 2018: On a cold, dark night in the winter of June 2017, hundreds of people gathered on the lawns of Hobart’s parliament house to join a procession that carried an effigy of a giant Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) to be ritually burnt at Macquarie Point. In
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    Scholarships securing the future of the Tasmanian devil

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2023/scholarships-securing-the-future-of-the-tasmanian-devil
    4 Apr 2023: This is Brandy, a handsome Tasmanian devil aptly named by Tamar Valley vineyard owner Tim High during a research trip in November 2022. Tim and his wife, Sheena, support two scholarships for graduate students working in priority study areas for the

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