Chernobyl wolves’ mutant genes offer insights for cancer prevention in humans, reveals research.
In 2014, scientists studying radioactive mutant wolves in Chernobyl found genes that might inform cancer prevention in humans. “In 2014, Cara Love, an evolutionary biologist at Princeton University, set out with a team of researchers to understand how animals have been able to survive the cancer-causing radiation. Love and her team took blood samples from …