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Tu Youyou - The biologist who brought eastern fusion to western medicine! Incredible Questions Of Science by Science Fuse
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Tu Youyou is the first woman from China to win a Nobel prize. When she was 15 years old, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. When she regained her health, she was determined to pursue a career in medicine. She took the wisdom of traditional remedies from her culture and combined it with the knowledge of Western medicine. After years of dedicated work and difficult circumstances, she won a Nobel prize in medicine for her discoveries that led to a new cure for malaria in 2015.
Tu Youyou is the first woman from China to win a Nobel prize. When she was 15 years old, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. When she regained her health, she was determined to pursue a career in medicine. She took the wisdom of traditional remedies from her culture and combined it with the knowledge of Western medicine. After years of dedicated work and difficult circumstances, she won a Nobel prize in medicine for her discoveries that led to a new cure for malaria in 2015.
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