Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Swedish biologist Svante Pääbo
This year's 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to Swedish researcher and geneticist Svante Pääbo, who tracked his work on ancient DNA, changing his research on changing our understanding of human origins.
Svante Pääbo an evolutionary geneticist at the Max Planck Institute in the German city of Leipzig has developed unique work on the succession of long-extinct Neanderthals.
Nobel Committee member Anna Wedell stated, "It was an impossible task."
Svante Pääbo learned of the award on Monday in a phone call from the Nobel Committee.
Thomas Perelman, secretary of the Nobel Assembly, said, "He was unable to speak at the top of happiness."
The young scientist focused his research on understanding how adenoviruses relate to the immune system and in another project he isolated DNA from Egyptian mummies.
The MCC considered the selection of winners that Svante Babu's discoveries "laid the groundwork for exploring what makes humans unique, by demonstrating the genetic differences that distinguish all living humans from extinct humans".
The Commission added in its decision that "the genetic differences between Homo sapiens and our closest ancestors who became extinct have been daunting until they were identified by the work of Svante Pääbo".
Svante Pääbo discovered that a gene transition took place between extinct hominins and hominins. This ancient gene transition to the present human being has had a physiological effect by, for example, affecting the way our immune system interacts with diseases.
His father, Sune Bergström, was the recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Medicine.
The prize is accompanied by a financial reward of 10 SEK million (approximately 920 thousand EUR ).
Last year's Nobel Prize for Medicine was won by Americans Ardem Pataputian and David Julius for discovering the way our nervous system transmits heat and touch.
The Nobel season continues in Stockholm on Tuesday with the announcement of the Nobel Prize for Physics and then Chemistry on Wednesday, before the highly anticipated Literature and Peace Prize, Friday, the only prize announced in Oslo. The Nobel season concludes next Monday with the Economics Prize.
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