Dogs living near the Chernobyl nuclear plant aren’t radioactive mutants—but their genetic differences reveal a surprising ...

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but ...

Learn more about how researchers zoomed in on the genomes of Chornobyl's dogs.

Radiation-induced mutation is unlikely to have induced genetic differences between dog populations in Chernobyl City and the ...

Basically, there was no sign of increased mutation rates linked to ... life is thriving in Chernobyl — more so than it did when humans were there. Nuclear exposure doesn’t seem to be as ...

Exposed to extreme environmental pollution, the radioactive dogs of Chernobyl became a fascinating case study for the National Human Genome Research Institute in the United States ... Researchers ...

Wildlife suffered initially, with high radiation levels causing genetic mutations, reproductive problems, and a sharp decline in populations. Birds and small mammals in the area were particularly ...

This, says a team of biologists led by Sophia Tintori of New York University, could offer some insights into DNA repair mechanisms that could one day be adapted for use in human medicine. Since the ...

The SpaceX rocket sent Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander into space. It is expected to arrive on the Moon in about ...

Nematodes have simple genomes and a short lifespan. Chernobyl is a dangerous place to be due to high levels of radiation still present in the area following the 1986 nuclear disaster, one of the ...