In a shocking twist of nature, dogs living near the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site ... asked Elaine Ostrander, a dog genomics expert at the National Human Genome Research Institute, in an ...

A recent study, published in PLOS ONE, examined dogs living near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and those in the city, ...

A population of dogs thrives in the radioactive environment of Chernobyl. This nuclear disaster on April 26, 1986, was one of the most terrible events in human history. While the human population ...

The dogs of Chernobyl ... in the “greater Chernobyl area” descended from pets abandoned by evacuees in the 80s. Elaine Ostrander, study author and geneticist at the US National Institutes ...

It will be 39 years since the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, but the aftermath still isn't over. The 1986 explosion is known as a devastating human tragedy, and it had an equally catastrophic ...

Dogs living near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster have mutated to develop a new superpower - they are immune to radiation, heavy metals and pollution. Scientists collected blood samples ...

Our goal is to understand how the dogs have adapted to living in this environment, explains Elaine Ostrander, a geneticist from the National Human ... groups within the Chernobyl dog population.