It's believed that there are mutant wolves at Chernobyl with special powers, meaning, they've developed an immunity towards cancer. This is going to help scientists find new ways to help fight against the disease.
Chernobyl is the site where a nuclear power plant accident happened in 1986, causing in thousands of people leaving the area after they were evacuated to avoid radiation. That region has become abandoned ever since, and is called CEZ, or Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, which is a 1,000 square-mile area around the site that poses a radioactive danger. While this zone is no longer lived in by humans, wildlife certainly thrives there. Animals such as elk, horses, boards, dogs and wolves. Human houses including towns like Pripyat, are now spooky and overgrown, silent and with no sound other than nature itself that has claimed the region.
It's believed that mutated species are at CEZ, especially among canines. When people evacuated in 1986, they also left behind everything including their dogs. Decades later, a population of wild dogs living in the exclusion zone have been studied to learn about the dogs. Generations of dogs have been exposed to high levels of radiation and they're not as healthy as other dogs outside of the zone. Wolves there have been exposed to high levels of radiation for generations, but they've adapted to it. Their immune system has a certain immunity to cancer risk. It's something that Dr Cara Love hopes to research more about these wolves. Further studies on this have been paused due to the conflict upon the Ukraine by Russia. These mutant wolves might be the answer to help survive cancer.
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