Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China
Codon
APRIL 9, 2024
The existing literature written in English on this story tends to attribute Tu Youyou’s achievements to a solo discovery, an understandable consequence of Tu receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015. Department of Defense administered mefloquine, the synthetic drug developed at Walter Reed in the U.S.,
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