The development of antimalarial drugs is fascinating – it is often driven by war and conquest. When human beings got busy trying to kill each other (during the era of colonial expansion, WWII, the Vietnam War), they often found themselves face to face with an even deadlier foe.
I have not had time to make my own blog post today about The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015, and there are already many out there circulating. Among the best I saw, this one published by Adam Cole in his blog, is focused in Tu Youyou (congrats) and her discovery of Artemisinin to fight malaria.
Congratulations also to the other half of the prize:
