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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Linda Geddes Science correspondent

Swedish geneticist wins Nobel prize for Neanderthal research

Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has won the 10m Swedish kronor Nobel prize. Photograph: Reuters

A Swedish geneticist has been awarded the 2022 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine.

Svante Pääbo won the 10m Swedish kronor (£802,000) prize announced on Monday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.

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