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https://www.wired.com/story/35-years-later-studies-show-a-silver-lining-from-chernobyl/

by Sarah Harrison
April 26, 2021

In two papers published Thursday in Science, an international team of researchers took on two very different but important questions. The first paper tracked the effects of radiation on the children of people who were exposed and found that there were no transgenerational mutations that were passed down from those parents. The second focused on thyroid cancer caused by radiation exposure and examined how radiation acts on DNA to cause the growth of cancerous tumors.

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