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Higher Frequency DNA Mutations Found In Children Of Chernobyl Cleanup Workers
They found an average of 2.65 clustered de novo mutations (cDNMs) per child, compared to 0.88 cDNMs in children of unexposed parents.
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Tiny Worms Living In Chernobyl Can Offer DNA Repair Mechanism For Humans: Study
These worms, called nematodes, have simple genomes and a short lifespan, which enabled researchers to study their multiple generations.
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Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Altered Genetics Of Dogs Left Behind, Study Finds
Scientists are now gaining insight into how generations are impacted by long-term radiation exposure from a group of wild dogs living near the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
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Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant Standoff Stirs Chernobyl Memories
Anastasiya Rudenko clutches the gleaming gold medal her late husband Viktor was awarded for working in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone.
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"Had To Do It," Says Chernobyl Pilot Who Made 3 Flights Within 20 Minutes
More than three decades after he flew his helicopter above the radioactive volcano that was Chernobyl's nuclear reactor number four, the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, Mykola Volkozub recalls how he feared for his life.
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Chernobyl Emerges From Oblivion For The Streaming Generation
Olha Kyselova wasn't born when the Chernobyl power plant exploded in 1986, yet the disaster has always been in her life. Her parents were "liquidators," sent in to brave the radiation and help clear the area of deadly materials. Then they charted hotspots for more than a decade.
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Going Home To Chernobyl Ghost Town 32 Years On
Natalia Shevchuk gazes at the peeling walls inside her old flat and tears run down her cheeks: 32 years after the Chernobyl disaster she is finally revisiting her childhood home in the ghost town of Pripyat.
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Ukraine Marks 30 Years Since Chernobyl Disaster
Ukraine prepared today to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which permanently poisoned swathes of eastern Europe and highlighted the shortcomings of the secretive Soviet system.
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30 Years After Blast, Labor To Clean Chernobyl's Traces
Thirty years after the world's worst nuclear accident, the Chernobyl power plant is surrounded by both desolation and clangorous activity, the sense of a ruined past and a difficult future.
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Belarus President Congratulates Dissident Writer for Nobel Prize
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday congratulated dissident writer Svetlana Alexievich, an outspoken critic of her country's authoritarian regime, for her Nobel prize for literature.
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Ukraine's 'Russian Woodpecker' Takes Stab at Vladimir Putin
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster was ordered deliberately by Moscow, as a coverup to distract attention from a failed weapons project.
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Russian wildfires reach Chernobyl zone
Wildfires are threatening to stir radioactive particles left over from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster back into the air over western Russia, and authorities have boosted forest patrols to keep the flames from contaminated areas.Environmentalists and forest experts warned on Wednesday that the radioactive dust could be harmful, even though dose...
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Higher Frequency DNA Mutations Found In Children Of Chernobyl Cleanup Workers
They found an average of 2.65 clustered de novo mutations (cDNMs) per child, compared to 0.88 cDNMs in children of unexposed parents.
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Tiny Worms Living In Chernobyl Can Offer DNA Repair Mechanism For Humans: Study
These worms, called nematodes, have simple genomes and a short lifespan, which enabled researchers to study their multiple generations.
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Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Altered Genetics Of Dogs Left Behind, Study Finds
Scientists are now gaining insight into how generations are impacted by long-term radiation exposure from a group of wild dogs living near the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
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Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant Standoff Stirs Chernobyl Memories
Anastasiya Rudenko clutches the gleaming gold medal her late husband Viktor was awarded for working in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone.
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"Had To Do It," Says Chernobyl Pilot Who Made 3 Flights Within 20 Minutes
More than three decades after he flew his helicopter above the radioactive volcano that was Chernobyl's nuclear reactor number four, the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, Mykola Volkozub recalls how he feared for his life.
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Chernobyl Emerges From Oblivion For The Streaming Generation
Olha Kyselova wasn't born when the Chernobyl power plant exploded in 1986, yet the disaster has always been in her life. Her parents were "liquidators," sent in to brave the radiation and help clear the area of deadly materials. Then they charted hotspots for more than a decade.
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Going Home To Chernobyl Ghost Town 32 Years On
Natalia Shevchuk gazes at the peeling walls inside her old flat and tears run down her cheeks: 32 years after the Chernobyl disaster she is finally revisiting her childhood home in the ghost town of Pripyat.
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Ukraine Marks 30 Years Since Chernobyl Disaster
Ukraine prepared today to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which permanently poisoned swathes of eastern Europe and highlighted the shortcomings of the secretive Soviet system.
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30 Years After Blast, Labor To Clean Chernobyl's Traces
Thirty years after the world's worst nuclear accident, the Chernobyl power plant is surrounded by both desolation and clangorous activity, the sense of a ruined past and a difficult future.
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Belarus President Congratulates Dissident Writer for Nobel Prize
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday congratulated dissident writer Svetlana Alexievich, an outspoken critic of her country's authoritarian regime, for her Nobel prize for literature.
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Ukraine's 'Russian Woodpecker' Takes Stab at Vladimir Putin
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster was ordered deliberately by Moscow, as a coverup to distract attention from a failed weapons project.
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Russian wildfires reach Chernobyl zone
Wildfires are threatening to stir radioactive particles left over from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster back into the air over western Russia, and authorities have boosted forest patrols to keep the flames from contaminated areas.Environmentalists and forest experts warned on Wednesday that the radioactive dust could be harmful, even though dose...
