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Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo receives Nobel Prize in Medicine
Updated On: 03 October, 2022 03:35 PM IST | Stockholm | ANI
The 2022 Nobel Prize laureate Svante Paabo found that gene transfer had occurred from the now extinct hominins to Homo sapiens. This ancient flow of genes to present-day humans has physiological relevance today, for example affecting how our immune system reacts to infections, the statement said
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Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, Thomas Perlmann announces the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Svante Paabo. Pic/ AFP
Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology 2022 was awarded to Svante Paabo for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution, announced the award-giving organisation on Monday.
"The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Svante Paabo for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution," read the Nobel Prize statement.
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