On April 26, 1896, the industrial city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine was changed forever. Located just 16.5 km from the city ...

They found that the dogs of Chernobyl didn’t appear to have any major mutations present that weren’t found in other dogs outside the CEZ. This is interesting, as though these dogs aren’t the ...

A study analyzed the DNA of feral dogs living near Chernobyl, compared the animals to others living 10 miles away, and found remarkable differences.

On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear disaster unfolded at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what is now northern Ukraine. After one of the plant’s reactors exploded during a test ...

Something strange is happening to the dogs of Chernobyl—their DNA is changing at an unbelievable rate. Scientists have uncovered mutations unlike anything seen before, with radiation seemingly ...

For the new study, however, researchers analyzed the dogs’ genomes deeper to find evidence of mutations that could have built up over time. Their findings indicated that dogs in Chernobyl city ...

Among the things scientists have been looking at recently are the genetic differences of dogs living near in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) near Pripyat in Ukraine, and a new study has been ...

For the new study, however, researchers analyzed the dogs’ genomes deeper to find evidence of mutations that could have built up over time. Their findings indicated that dogs in Chernobyl city had ...

Germline DNA mutations, for example, are inheritable changes within the DNA of reproductive cells. The researchers began their analysis at the chromosomal level, and then progressively zoomed in ...

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced mutations.