14.TU Youyou,84,(1)
(honor)with the Nobel Prize in Physiology(生理學(xué))or Medicine on Oct 5.She was(2)
first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize in science.Tu shared the prize (3)
the Irish-born William Campbell and Satoshi Omura of Japan.
Tu is a researcher at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine.She was honored for (4)
(develop)artemisinin, "a new drug therapy against malaria" (5)
has saved millionsof lives worldwide,(6)
(especial)in developing countries,the Nobel Assembly said on its website.
Tu and her colleagues (7)
(join)a government project to find a new malaria drug in the late1960s.They made 380 herbal extracts from 2,000 recipes from traditional Chinese(8)
(medicine)books.In 1971,after more than 190 (9)
(fail),Tu's team finally found an extract that was100 percent effective against the malaria parasites(寄生蟲)-artemisinin.
"The discovery of artemisinin is a gift to mankind from traditional Chinese medicine.Its the collective achievement of the research team. (10)
(win)the prize is an honor for China's science and traditional Chinese medicine, "Tu told Xinhua.