Pulmonary diseases pose a major health problem worldwide with millions of affected individuals and dire economic impact.

Establishing a new field of science to answer the question of what makes humans unique from our extinct relatives has earned Svante Pääbo the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. “Humanity has ...

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Svante Pääbo for his discoveries about the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. Pääbo, a Swedish geneticist and a director ...