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Tu Youyou (Chinese: 屠呦呦; pinyin: Tú Yōuyōu; born 30 December 1930) is a Nobel Prize-winning Chinese malariologist and pharmaceutical chemist.She discovered artemisinin (also known as qīnghāosù, 青蒿素) and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives in South China, Southeast Asia, Africa, and South ...
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Artemisia annua belongs to the plant family of Asteraceae and is an annual short-day plant. Its stem is erect and brownish or violet-brown. The plant itself is hairless and naturally grows from 30 to 100 cm tall, although in cultivation plants can reach a height of 200 cm.
Artemisinin (/ ˌ ɑːr t ɪ ˈ m iː s ɪ n ɪ n /) and its semisynthetic derivatives are a group of drugs used in the treatment of malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum. [1] It was discovered in 1972 by Tu Youyou, who shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery. [2]
Lt. Col. Harry T. Stewart Jr. of Michigan, one of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was born on the Fourth of July in 1924.
Every animal deserves a chance at love and safety, and for one feline family, that chance came just in time. Recently, TikTok account @erins_fosters uploaded a video of a mama cat and her kittens ...
The infrared and x-ray images beneath the portrait led to the conservators seeing the painting of the woman, which they said was likely created just a few months earlier. The form of the woman's ...
The diploma contains a picture and text which states the name of the laureate and a citation as to why they received the prize. ... Tu Youyou (2015) and Katalin Karik ...