By KENJI TAMURA/ Senior Staff Writer
March 20, 2021 at 09:00 JST
Svante Paabo, who also serves as a department head at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany (Photo taken by Frank Vinken and provided by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University)
ONNA, Okinawa Prefecture--New research suggests a gene that reduces the risk of developing serious COVID-19 symptoms is inherited from Neanderthals, a species of human that died out 40,000 years ago. [Read More]
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