Nobel Prize: Nobel Prize In Medicine To Svante Paabo Of Sweden

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Nobel Prize: Nobel Prize In Medicine To Svante Paabo Of Sweden
04 Oct 2022
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Nobel Prize Week 2022: The Nobel Prize has begun. The award was first announced in the Physiology/Medicine category this week being held in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. This time the Nobel of Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pabo of Sweden. Svante Pabo has been awarded the Nobel for Medicine for discoveries relating to the genome of extinct hominins and human evolution. His name was announced by Thomas Perlman, the secretary of the Nobel Committee.

In this program which will run till 10th October, the winner will be announced in the Physics category on 4th October i.e. today. Born on 20 April 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden, Svante Pabo completed his studies at Uppsala University. Swante is a geneticist and expert in the field of evolutionary genetics. He has also done a lot of work on DNA. The special thing is that Svante's father Bergstromi also received the Nobel Prize in 1982. He was a biochemist. Swante currently serves at the Max Planck Institute of Evolution Anthropology in Germany. Through his research, Svante Pabo has completed the analysis of several additional genome sequences from an extinct hominin. Pabo's discoveries are used extensively by the scientific community to better understand human evolution and migration. New methods of genome sequencing indicate that hominins may have mixed with Homo sapiens in Africa.

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