Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China
Codon
APRIL 9, 2024
However, the blandly clinical package of artemisinin and artesunate tablets reveals little about how the key compound was first discovered. Chinese researchers scoured ancient medical texts containing written records of malaria outbreaks and the plant-derived recipes that were used to treat them nearly two thousand years ago.
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