Mutated wolves in Chernobyl amaze research team - and could even help people. The animals appear to have developed resistance to cancer over the years.
This in turn raises the hope that the results can help scientists combat the serious disease in humans too. The results so far were presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology in Seattle, Washington, USA. Many human studies have found mutations that increase the risk of cancer. Love's work, however, aims to identify protective mutations that. increase the chances of cancer survival.