Tu was modest about receiving the award: “It’s a success for the whole research team.” She also thinks

　　is scientists’ duty to fight for the health of all humans.

　　When Tu joined the national research team to find the medicine

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　　could fight against malaria in the 1960s and 1910s, things were hard. The team didn’t have advanced equipment back then. Tu used to test

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　　（medicine） by eating them herself. Her team searched old Chinese medicine books

　　hand and tested over 2,000 traditional recipes.

　　Once Tu

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　　（return）home after traveling for six months. Her little daughter didn’t recognize her and hid from the “strange woman”. To do research, Tu also had to move around a lot.

　　Finally, Tu found artemisinin （青蒿素）in sweet wormwood in 1971. She spent the next decades

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　　（try） to improve the medicine. According to World Health Organization, about 200 million people suffer

　　malaria around the world, and about haft a million die each year. Artemisinin is stir the most effective treatment against malaria known today.

　　Tu never complains about how hard she works. “I feel more rewarded when I see so many cured patients,” she said.

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