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Tu Youyou: the legendary woman who discovered artemisinin
Manage episode 435648284 series 2902521
Chinese pharmacologist Tu Youyou, now 92 years old, won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of artemisinin, a group of drugs used to combat malaria in the 1970s. Tu once said that artemisinin, having saved millions of lives across the globe, was a gift from China to the world.
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Manage episode 435648284 series 2902521
Chinese pharmacologist Tu Youyou, now 92 years old, won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of artemisinin, a group of drugs used to combat malaria in the 1970s. Tu once said that artemisinin, having saved millions of lives across the globe, was a gift from China to the world.
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