Sequencing of genomes of ancient human relatives takes medicine Nobel prize
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Jamie Durrani2022-10-03T10:59:00
Svante Pääbo’s team sequenced the Neanderthal genome and discovered a previously unknown hominin
The 2022 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo for research on the evolution of present-day humans.
The Nobel committee awarded Pääbo the medicine Nobel prize ‘for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution’. He is credited with sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal and also discovering a previously unknown hominin – the Denisovans.