Tag: Tu Youyou
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Goats and Soda: Artemisinin and the Malaria Cure That Changed Global Health
From Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine The story of artemisinin begins not in a modern laboratory, but in the pages of ancient Chinese medicine. At the turn of the 20th century, researchers sought new ways to conquer malaria, a disease that has haunted humanity for centuries. The breakthrough came in the late 1960s and 1970s,…
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Goats, Soda, and the Malaria Breakthrough: Artemisinin’s Global Impact
From ancient herbs to modern medicine At the dawn of the 21st century, a class of drugs derived from traditional Chinese herbal medicine reshaped the fight against malaria. Artemisinin-based therapies (ACTs) emerged as the most potent defense against Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest malaria parasite. These drugs owe their name to the sweet wormwood plant, or…