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. When Louis Miller, now Chief of Malaria Cell Biology at the NIH, attended a malaria conference in Shanghai in 2008, he asked: Who discovered artemisinin? Nobody had an answer.
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