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TU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE
This year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Tu Youyou, 30 research led to the discovery of artemisinin(青蒿素), a new treatment for malaria. Over 200 million people around the world get malaria each year, and about 600, 000 die from it. Artemisinin is thought to save 100, 000 lives a year in Africa alone.
Tu Youyou, a 31 (commit) scientist, was born in Ningbo, China, on 30 December 1930, and graduated from Peking University Medical School in 1955. 32 she graduated, she worked at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. In 1967 the Chinese government formed a team of scientists 33 the objective of discovering a new treatment for malaria, and Tu Youyou was among the first researchers 34 (choose). In the beginning, Tu Youyou went to Hainan, where malaria was more common, to study malaria patients. In 1969, she became the head of the project in Beijing, and decided to review ancient Chinese medical texts 35 (find) traditional botanical treatments for the disease. Her team examined over 2,000 old medical texts, and evaluated 280,000 plants. From their research they discovered and tested 380 ancient Chinese medical treatments 36 showed promise in the fight against malaria.
One medical text from the fourth century suggested 37 (use)the extract from sweet wormwood to treat a fever. Tu’s team tested a collection of dried wormwood leaves 38 found no effect. They then tried boiling fresh wormwood, and using the liquid obtained from this to treat malaria, but this did not work either. Their project got 39 (stick). However, Tu Youyou would not acknowledge defeat.