Mutant wolves that roam the human-free Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have developed cancer-resilient genomes that could be key to helping humans fight the deadly disease, according to a study.

Packs of mutant wolves that roam the radiation-soaked zone around the Chernobyl power plant have developed cancer resistant genes that may help humans fight the disease, a new study shows.

The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl has produced the biggest group of cancers ever from a single incident, according to UK and US scientists. Almost 2,000 cases of thyroid cancer have resulted from ...

Some 5,000 people who were children and adolescents at the time of the world's worst-ever civil nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Ukraine, have so far been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and there ...

What's not disputed is that around 5,000 cases of thyroid cancer - most of which were treated and cured - were caused by the contamination. And that's what Chernobyl's writer wants people to remember.

Wolves in Ukraine's Chernobyl area are developing resilience to cancer, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology reports. A nuclear disaster followed the explosion at the Chernobyl ...

But so are the other roughly 1.75 million cancer deaths we can expect amongst those affected by the disaster - the cancers caused by everything other than Chernobyl radiation. The American Cancer ...

The exclusion zone around the abandoned nuclear site has become a haven for wildlife. Find out how it is being affected.

but the distance of the Polish border from Chernobyl might prompt questions about whether the exposure was enough for significant risk to the thyroid. Although no increased thyroid cancer in ...

Radioactive material, including cancer-causing iodine-131 ... Until the April 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the Windscale fire was one of the worst nuclear accidents in history and remains the worst ...