Medicine Nobel: Sifting Nature for Antiparasite Drugs
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 5 October 2015
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:33.9 | These two drugs are affecting the lives of 3.4 billion people living in endemic areas |
| 0:43.3 | with the risk of contracting phylariasis or river blindness or malaria. |
| 0:50.3 | So that is the global situation. |
| 0:53.3 | That's Jan Anderson, a member of the Nobel |
| 0:55.9 | Assembly, and I'm Steve Merski for Scientific Americans podcast Science Talk. The drugs he was |
| 1:02.0 | talking about earlier today, October 5, 2015, were developed by this year's Nobel Prize |
| 1:07.9 | winners in physiology or medicine. Here's the announcement of the prizes from another Nobel Assembly member, Urban Lendal, |
| 1:14.7 | shortly after 5.30 a.m. Eastern Time. |
| 1:17.6 | The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute has today awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology Medicine. |
| 1:25.8 | We won half jointly to William C. Campbell and |
| 1:29.3 | Satoshi Omura, for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by |
| 1:35.5 | roundworm parasites. And the other half two, Yu Yu, too, for her discoveries concerning |
| 1:42.2 | a novel therapy against malaria. |
| 1:45.2 | Campbell is affiliated with Drew University in New Jersey. |
| 1:48.8 | O'Mora is at Japan's Kidesato University, |
| 1:51.8 | and two is with the China Academy of Chinese Medical Research. |
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