The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute has awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany for his pioneering work in genomic studies of extinct humans, including the discovery of previously unknown types of human ancestors. His work has had a revolutionary impact on our understanding of our own evolution.
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Articles on the Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine from previous years:
2021: Medicine Nobel Prize Goes to Temperature and Touch Discoveries
2020: Scientists Win Nobel Prize for Discovering the Hepatitis C Virus
2019: Nobel Prize Awarded for Discoveries on How Cells Adapt to Oxygen
2018: Nobel Prize Awarded for Cancer Immunotherapy
2017: Nobel Prize Awarded for Biological Clock Discoveries and The Overlooked Link Between Two of This Year’s Nobel Prizes
