Nobel Prize in medicine awarded for research on evolution

This 12 months’s Nobel Prize in physiology or drugs has been awarded to Swedish scientist Svante Paabo for his discoveries on human evolution.

Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Committee, introduced the winner Monday on the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

Paabo has spearheaded analysis evaluating the genome of recent people and our closest extinct relations, the Neanderthals and Denisovans, displaying that there was mixing between the species.

Svante Paabo wins Nobel Prize in in physiology or drugs.

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The medication prize kicked off per week of Nobel Prize bulletins. It continues Tuesday with the physics prize, with chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will likely be introduced on Friday and the economics award on Oct. 10.

Thomas Perlmann declares the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medication Sweden’s Svante Paabo, throughout a press convention on the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct. 3, 2022.

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Final 12 months’s drugs recipients had been David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for his or her discoveries into how the human physique perceives temperature and contact.

The prizes carry a money award of 10 million Swedish kronor (almost $900,000) and will likely be handed out on Dec. 10. The cash comes from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1895.