The Hiriko Driving Mobility Group, based in the Basque region of Spain, visited the MIT lab in 2009, and leveraged some Spanish government funding to produce what became the Hiriko Fold.
Established in 2008 thanks to a generous endowment from the City of Bilbao (Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain), the aim of the Prize is to recognize outstanding contributions made by organizations and individuals to the cause of human rights through their committed actions and leadership role in the areas of education, research and awareness-raising.
Elections in the Basque region of Spain resulted in gains for the country's ruling centre-right party and for radical Basque nationalists.
The new study, of 5, 000-year-old bones from the Basque region of Spain, catches this evolutionary event in the act, finding that just 27% of individuals were then lactose tolerant, much lower than today.
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The president of the Basque branch of Spain's governing Popular Party, Carlos Iturgaiz, said the announcement was "very disagreeable news".
The three provinces that make up the Basque region in northern Spain already enjoy considerable self-government.
The Basque regional parliament in Spain asked for United Nations inspectors to oversee the region's peace process.
Last month, ETA appeared to suffer a further setback when the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), which advocates independence from Spain through peaceful means, won 33 seats in the 75-member parliament in Basque regional elections.
It sees the dispute as a purely bilateral matter between the two governments and conceding any form of self-determination for the people of Gibraltar would set an unwelcome precedent that might be exploited by the separatist movement in the Basque country of northern Spain.
Most of these were attributed to separatists groups in France and Spain, such as ETA, which is the Basque national separatist organization.
As a result, public spending per person in the Basque country is the highest in Spain.
In Spain the minority Socialist Government has had to moderate its plans so as to get the blessing of the Basque Nationalist Party.
Mr Aznar, whose party polled well in both the Basque and the Catalan parts of Spain, is determined to challenge the hold of the nationalists.
"This was one of the scariest trips I have ever made, " says the cleric, who spent 13 years living in the terror-torn Basque region of northern Spain.
An alleged member of the Basque separatist group Eta can be sent to Spain to face terrorism charges, a UK court has ruled.
Basque peace could be a pay-off for Mr Zapatero's softly-softly approach to Spain's most enduring political problem: regional tensions in the Basque country and in Catalonia.
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One of Spain's most serious domestic issues has been tension in the northern Basque region.
Catalonia's nearby regions, the Basque country, and Galicia in the Northwest of Spain also have self-governance mandates under the Spanish Constitution of 1978.
Yet, for all the headlines about that, it is the ordinary, unreported, non-Basque 95% of Spain that gives a truer picture of its past, present and future.
After all, the authors point out, most people in Spain's minority regions see themselves as both Spanish and Basque (or Catalan or Galician) not just one or the other.
Veteran winger Joseba Etxeberria leveled on 66 before Spain striker Fernando Llorente held off the challenge of Nuno Pinto to strike an 86th-minute winner and end the Basque outfit's poor run of one win from five matches.
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