Nature asked the pioneer of ancient-DNA research about some of his greatest discoveries.
about plans to engineer Neanderthal-like tissues and how he ended up being hurled into a pond to celebrate winning his Nobel prize.It’s a tradition at our institute that you throw PhD candidates into the pond when they pass their exams. And some people had the idea that it would be appropriate to throw me into the pond. It was the second time, actually — there has been one crazy party before where that happened. But that’s a long time ago. I hope this is the last time I end up in the pond.
Svante Pääbo celebrates his Nobel Prize according to tradition at the the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.As a kid, I always wanted to be an archaeologist or Egyptologist. And then I started studying that at university. But I had much too romantic ideas about what it would be like. I ended up studying medicine and molecular biology.
Your field went through a crisis in the 1990s and 2000s, when a lot of ancient-DNA findings were affected by contamination. Was that difficult?turned out to have been contamination from a present-day human. And then people started getting DNA from dinosaurs and inclusions in amber, things like that. That was when everyone felt that we needed more-stringent controls, and — when there are extraordinary claims — that things should be reproduced in a second laboratory.
日本 最新ニュース, 日本 見出し
Similar News:他のニュース ソースから収集した、これに似たニュース記事を読むこともできます。
Nuclear-embedded mitochondrial DNA sequences in 66,083 human genomes - NatureA study examining DNA transfer from mitochondria to the nucleus using whole-genome sequences from 66,083 people shows that this is an ongoing dynamic process in normal cells with distinct roles in different types of cancer.
続きを読む »
Precise DNA cleavage using CRISPR-SpRYgests - Nature BiotechnologyA PAMless CRISPR nuclease is applied for precision DNA cleavage and cloning.
続きを読む »
Nature Cafe on Advancing Health Equity Through Community EngagementRegister for our free Nature Café on Advancing Health Equity Through Community Engagement. Speakers include Folakemi Odedina DrOdedina, Amitava Banerjee amibanerjee1, Marcia Castro marciacastrorj, Rafaela Alves Pachecho, and Andy Pattison WHO
続きを読む »
Invisible ship tracks show large cloud sensitivity to aerosol - NatureInvestigations of the effect of aerosol emissions from shipping on cloud properties when both visible and invisible ship tracks are considered implies a large negative radiative effect (and associated cooling) from liquid water path adjustments.
続きを読む »
Opposing roles of hepatic stellate cell subpopulations in hepatocarcinogenesis - NatureSubpopulations of cytokine-producing and myofibroblastic hepatic stellate cells, identified by single-cell RNA sequencing, protect against or promote the development of hepatocellular carcinoma via high expression of hepatocyte growth factor or type I collagen, respectively..
続きを読む »