Re: [DIYbio] Re: Stem Cells out of wisdom teeth

In isogenic populations like lab mice and some purebred dogs, cancers
can be transmissible because there's no genetic diversity between hosts
by which to distinguish tumour cells.

In humans I don't think there's any population with a shallow enough
gene pool for this to occur, meaning that usually a healthy person can
only "catch" cancer from two sources: themselves, or an identical
twin.

This doesn't apply to oncogenic viruses, which I suspect is behind the
Tasmanian devil cancer and many other transmissible "cancers".

So, injecting HeLa into anyone but Henrietta Lacks is unlikely to
generate tumours unless the immune system of the recipient is
suppressed.

On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:50:48 +0200
Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 09:41:52PM -0400, Avery louie wrote:
> > Not to fan the flsmes, but people did secretly inject people with
> > HeLa and pretty much nothing happened to the healthy ones.
>
> Related problem space: Tasmanian devil face cancer (and some
> potential cases of transmissible cancers in dogs).
>

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