Children of Chernobyl cleanup crew don’t have excess mutations A deep look into the genetic damage left by the disaster. John Timmer – Apr 25, 2021 9:00 am | 217 ...

Some previous genetic studies of people affected by Chernobyl had claimed to find hints of heritable mutations, notably a 1996 study that found excess changes in children’s “minisatellites ...

Chernobyl Survivors Do Not Pass Excess Mutations on to Their Children After All Researchers suggest the results may extend to those exposed to radiation in other nuclear accidents, such as the ...

The 1986 accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near the city of Pripyat in what’s now Ukraine, is still considered one of the worst disasters of its kind. A botched safety test ...

Surprisingly, they found seven times more mutations in the DNA of the children born after the accident, ... Mutation rate doubled in Chernobyl’s children (27/04/1996) Advertisement.

Fifteen years after the world's worst-ever nuclear accident, Israeli and Ukrainian researchers have reported that new evidence of genetic damage from the Chernobyl disaster has been discovered.

Between 50 and 100 of these mutations occur naturally in each generation, and the results showed that the mutations occurred at a similar rate in children of Chernobyl liquidators. There was no ...

Ten years after the disastrous nuclear accident at the Chernobyl power plant in the Ukraine, scientists report finding inherited genetic damage in people exposed to the fallout. Such damage hasn&#8… ...

For decades, scientists have studied animals living in or near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to see how increased levels of radiation affect their health, growth, and evolution. A study analyzed ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster was the worst nuclear meltdown in history. Today, much of the area around the old plant in Ukraine and in bordering Belarus remains uninhabited, including the city of the ...

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.