Nobel Week has begun in Stockholm, during which this year's laureates of the prestigious award will be announced.

According to tradition, it began with the announcement of the winners of the award in the field of physiology or medicine.

This year, Svante Paabo received the Nobel Prize with the wording "his discovery regarding the genomes of extinct hominids and human evolution".

"Thanks to his groundbreaking research, Svante Paabo accomplished something that seemed impossible: he sequenced the genome of a Neanderthal, an extinct relative of modern humans. He also made a sensational discovery of the previously unknown Denisovan man. Paabo also discovered that gene transfer took place from these now extinct hominids to Homo sapiens after migrating out of Africa about 70,000 years ago. This ancient gene flow to modern humans has physiological significance today, for example by affecting how our immune system responds to infection," the statement said.

BREAKING NEWS:


The 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”

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— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 3, 2022

We will remind you that last year the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded for the discovery of touch and temperature receptors.

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