CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Dr. Svante Pääbo had published the first Neanderthal genome sequence in 2010. The story so far: The 2022 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo for his research in the field of genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 2010, Svante Pääbo succeeded in sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal. He also discovered a previously unknown hominin, Denisova. He also found that gene transfer had occurred from these now extinct hominins to Homo sapiens following the migration out of Africa around 70,000 years ago.

Detailed explanation-3: -Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine for advancing the understanding of human evolution. Other frontrunners were Hungarian-born Katalin Kariko, whose research led to the first mRNA vaccines to fight COVID-19.

Detailed explanation-4: -As stipulated in the will of the Swedish-born inventor and international industrialist Alfred Nobel, which was opened after his death in 1896, the Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine and literature are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, while the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”.