{"id":8968,"date":"2022-10-04T10:33:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T05:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8968"},"modified":"2025-03-29T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T04:57:00","slug":"nobel-prize-in-physiology-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nobel-prize-in-physiology-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize in Physiology, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>He has spearheaded the development of new techniques that allowed researchers to compare the genome of modern humans and that of other hominins \u2014 the Neanderthals and Denisovans.<\/li>\n<li>He spent decades trying to extract DNA from 40,000-year-old bones, culminating in the unveiling of the Neanderthal genome in 2010.<\/li>\n<li>The research helped establish that modern humans and Neanderthals share a common ancestor that lived some 600,000 years ago. Paabo and his team also found genetic evidence that, during periods of coexistence, modern humans and Neanderthals had children together.<\/li>\n<li>His seminal research gave rise to an entirely new scientific discipline; paleogenomics.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>His research led to the understanding that archaic gene sequences from our extinct relatives influence the physiology of present-day humans.\n<ul>\n<li>One such example is the Denisovan version of the gene EPAS1, which confers an advantage for survival at high altitude and is common among present-day Tibetans.<\/li>\n<li>Other examples are Neanderthal genes that affect our immune response to different types of infections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/medicine-nobel-goes-to-svante-p%C3%A4%C3%A4bo-for-sequencing-neanderthal-genome\/article65965761.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel Prize in Physiology awarded to Svante P\u00e4\u00e4bo \u201cfor his discoveries the genomes of extinct hominins.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}