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Awards week
I went into this year’s Nobel Prize Announcements Week a little confused about why I was excited. For me the prizes have always highlighted the recipients’ work, and that’s likelier than not a field of study I’ve probably never heard of … Continue reading
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Tagged CRISPR/Cas9, INO, multidisciplinarity, Nobel Prize, Sahitya Akademi, Svetlana Alexievich, Youyou Tu
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How an ancient Chinese text fought malaria and won a Nobel, while India lags behind
On October 5, Youyou Tu became only the 12th woman in history to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. She shared one half of the prize with William Campbell and Satoshi Omura, the discoverers of the drug … Continue reading
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Tagged artemisinin, filarial diseases, ivermectin, malaria, Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology, river blindness, Satoshi Omura, William Campbell, Youyou Tu
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