67-year-old scientist wins 2022 Nobel prize after discovering DNA in the bones of a 40,000-year-old dead body

Svante Paabo, a brilliant 67-year-old Swedish scientist, has been named the Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize winner for 2022 after obtaining DNA from the bones of a 40,000-year-old corpse.

In addition to being able to extract DNA from the 40,000-year-old human bones, Svante Paabo, who has been working on the discovery project for decades, was also able to sequence the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of modern humans.

Svante Paabo was able to prove that there was gene transfer between homo sapiens and extinct hominins, creating a completely new field of study known as paleogenomics.

What Paabo’s study accomplished was thought to be impossible, according to Dr. Nils-Goran Larsson, the chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine and a professor of medical biochemistry at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

Paabo received the award “for his discoveries about the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution,” according to a statement posted on the website of the Nobel Prize organization.

“Paabo’s seminal research gave rise to an entirely new scientific discipline; paleogenomics. By revealing genetic differences that distinguish all living humans from extinct hominins, his discoveries provide the basis for exploring what makes us uniquely human,” the statement added.

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