{"id":121888,"date":"2022-10-06T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T05:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=121888"},"modified":"2022-10-06T11:03:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T05:33:21","slug":"svante-paabo-wins-2022-nobel-prize-in-medicine-for-decoding-ancient-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/svante-paabo-wins-2022-nobel-prize-in-medicine-for-decoding-ancient-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"Svante Paabo wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine for decoding ancient DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Svante Paabo wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine for decoding ancient DNA: <\/strong>Swedish geneticist, Svante Paabo (67)\u00a0has won the\u00a02022 Nobel Prize in Medicine\u00a0for\u00a0discoveries on human evolution. This discovery provides understanding of how modern day humans evolved from extinct ancestors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-october-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">October 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He performed his prize-winning&nbsp;studies in Germany at the University of Munich and at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Paabo is the&nbsp;son of Sune Bergstrom, who won the Nobel prize in medicine in 1982.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Svante Paabo wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine for decoding ancient DNA: Swedish geneticist, Svante Paabo (67)\u00a0has won the\u00a02022 Nobel Prize in Medicine\u00a0for\u00a0discoveries on human evolution. This discovery provides understanding of how modern day humans evolved from extinct ancestors. 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