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The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to the Swedish biologist Svante Pääbo

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to the Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo, “for his discoveries on the genomes of extinct hominids and human evolution,” announced the committee of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Pääbo “achieved something seemingly impossible: sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of modern humans.” The authorities […]