2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Svante Pääbo
The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Svante Pääbo for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolutionHumanity has always been intrigued by its origins. Where do we come from, and how are we related to those who came before us? What makes us, Homo sapiens, different from other hominins? Through his pioneering research, Svante Pääbo accomplished something seeminglyimpossible: sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans. He also made the