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Nobel laureate Tu Youyou discovered the malaria drug 'artemisinin' after reading a 1,600-year-old Chinese medical text and realising the herb had to be extracted cold, not boiled. That insight paved the way for a treatment estimated to have saved tens of millions of lives.

Source: NobelPrize.org

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