A Swedish geneticist has been awarded the 2022 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.
Svante Pääbo won the 10m Swedish kronor (£867,000) prize announced on Monday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
Pääbo won for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins including Neanderthals and human evolution, according to the formal citation from the Nobel committee.
His discoveries also have implications for modern medicine. Chunks of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA are peppered throughout the human genome and their analysis is beginning to shed light on what makes our physiology unique, or similar, to that of our ancestors.
Working at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig by the way.
He is a really cool guy. I’m happy for him that he got it.
Awesome 😀
The name hears so much Finnish, Baltic.
This guy did a study on me, won $1 million, and didn’t care to share….I must be some kind of caveman.
Didn’t know the Trump administration has been studied on such a profound level.
The whole prehistory field is so fascinating and a great example for true interdisciplinary work with paleogenetics, archaeology, historical linguistics etc all playing a decisive role (even if the fields could/should work more together)
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A Swedish geneticist has been awarded the 2022 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.
Svante Pääbo won the 10m Swedish kronor (£867,000) prize announced on Monday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
Pääbo won for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins including Neanderthals and human evolution, according to the formal citation from the Nobel committee.
His discoveries also have implications for modern medicine. Chunks of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA are peppered throughout the human genome and their analysis is beginning to shed light on what makes our physiology unique, or similar, to that of our ancestors.
Working at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig by the way.
He is a really cool guy. I’m happy for him that he got it.
Awesome 😀
The name hears so much Finnish, Baltic.
This guy did a study on me, won $1 million, and didn’t care to share….I must be some kind of caveman.
Didn’t know the Trump administration has been studied on such a profound level.
The whole prehistory field is so fascinating and a great example for true interdisciplinary work with paleogenetics, archaeology, historical linguistics etc all playing a decisive role (even if the fields could/should work more together)