The contagious cancers that infect cockles are termed bivalve transmissible neoplasia (BTN). These are cancers of the cockle's immune cells, causing a disease similar to leukemia. BTN spreads ...

SLURPING OYSTERS from their shells may be a rare indulgence for humans, but these bivalve molluscs and their relatives, such as clams and mussels, slurp for a living. Most are filter feeders, ...

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 ...

Washington clammers may not dig this news. WDFW is taking comment on a proposal that would chop the geoduck daily limit sharply, increase the minimum size for cockle clams, shorten seasons at two ...

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 ...