The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not only themselves, but their children, to hidden genetic damage. The ...
The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers showed mutations caused by radiation that were also evident in the genes of their ...
Nearly forty years after the 1986 nuclear accident near Pripyat, scientists have found measurable genetic changes in people whose fathers were exposed to the fallout while living in the town or ...