Mutant wolves roaming the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have developed cancer-resilient genomes that could hold the key to developing a cure for cancer in humans.
High radiation levels have plagued the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone since the nuclear reactor exploded in 1986. Humans have abandoned the 1,000-square-mile Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, allowing wildlife to reclaim the area in the 38 years since the worst nuclear disaster in history.
Despite exposure to the cancer-causing radiation, the irradiated wolves appear to have developed protective mutations that make them resilient to cancer.
Cara Love, an evolutionary biologist and ecotoxicologist with Shane Campbell-Staton’s lab at Princeton University, has been studying the mutant wolves of the CEZ for a decade.In 2014, Love and her colleagues took blood samples of the wolves in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to understand how the animals reacted to the cancer-causing radiation. The scientists also fitted the wolves with radio collars to track their locations and […]
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