Nobel

be impossible. As concentrations.
a result, up to 2 supported it.
percent of the

Prize
genome in people "There are many
of European or implications for
Asian descent is [Pääbo's research],

in
descended from both in terms of
Neanderthals, understanding our
including genes evolution, potential

Medic
that influence our medical
immune response implications, and a
to infections. fundamental

ine
understanding of
In 2008, Pääbo our physiology,"
sequenced DNA said Gunilla
Pääblo, who from a 40,000- Karlsson-
founded the Max year-old finger Hedestam, a
Planck Institute for bone discovered in member of the
Evolutionary a cave in Southern Nobel committee,
Anthropology in Siberia. By in the
Leipzig, Germany comparing this announcement. "It
in 1990, pioneered DNA with that of will continue to lay
the ancient DNA both Neanderthals
2022 Nobel Prize winner for medicine Svante Pääbo
sequencing method and H. sapiens, he
by trying to discovered an the groundwork,
sequence entirely new and in doing so, it
Neanderthal species of hominin, will help medical
mitochondria, the the Denisovans. advances," he said.
powerhouses of Pääbo's work also
cells. includes the
Pääblo sequenced discovery that a
3 billion base pairs gene inherited from
of the Neanderthal the Denisovans
genome. DNA helps modern-day
degrades and can Tibetans survive at
become high altitudes with
contaminated, so low oxygen
this was thought to