一本四世纪的医药文献推荐使用青蒿提取物来治疗发烧。屠 呦呦的团队测试了一批干青蒿,但没有发现效果。然后,他们试着 把新鲜的青蒿煮沸,并用从中提取的液体来治疗疟疾,但这也不起 作用。他们的项目陷入了困境。然而,屠呦呦并不承认失败。她再 次分析了一遍医药文献,偶然间,她发现了一句话,建议用另一种 方法来处理青蒿。她得出结论,煮青蒿显然破坏了它的药用价值。
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TU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE 屠呦呦获诺贝尔奖
6 October处于感染阶段疟原虫血液, 感染疟原虫所引起虫媒传染病。 现感染人类的疟原虫主要有四 种,即间日疟原虫、恶性疟原虫、 三日疟原虫和卵形疟原虫。我 国主要是间日疟原虫和恶性疟 原虫,其他两种较为少见,近年来 输入性疟疾已成为我国消除疟 疾面临的重大挑战。
Tu Youyou, a committed and patient scientist, was born in Ningbo, China, on 30 December 1930, and graduated from Peking University Medical School in 1955. After she graduated, she worked at the China Academy(学院,研究院,学会) of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. In 1967, the Chinese government formed (组建,形成,表格) a team of scientists with the objective of discovering a new treatment for malaria, and Tu Youyou was among (三者或者以上的之一) the first researchers chosen. In the beginning, Tu Youyou went to Hainan, where malaria was more common, to study malaria patients.