Nobel prize awarded for study of human evolution using ancient DNA

The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo for his study into human evolution using ancient DNA

degrades and can become contaminated, meaning that sequencing ancient DNA was thought to be impossible., chair of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, at the prize’s announcement on 3 October. “Where do we come from? And how are we related to those who came before us? What makes us different from hominids that went extinct?”

“Pääbo finally achieved the [what was thought to be] impossible sequencing and assembly of the Neanderthal genome… and discovered a completely new hominin entirely [theMitochondrial DNA carries very limited information on an individual’s overall physiology, so next Pääbo sequenced ancient DNA packaged in the nucleus, or main control centre, of ancient cells.

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