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Swede Paabo wins Nobel Medicine Prize for sequencing Neanderthal DNA
Covid-19 patients with a snippet of Neanderthal DNA run a higher risk of severe complications from the disease, Paabo reported in a 2020 study.
In this file photo taken on November 08, 2015 Director, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Svante Paabo poses with the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences /AFP
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision
Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo, who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered the previously unknown hominin Denisova, on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize.
"By revealing genetic differences that distinguish