From The Times and Sunday Times, this is The Story.

I'm Tom Whipple, science writer and special correspondent.

Eight years ago, a new medication for diabetes appeared.

It worked really well, but it had one extra, rather noticeable side effect.

Until recently, a Zempec was used solely to treat diabetes, but once it was shown to cause

dramatic weight loss, the internet and drug companies came alive.

One that would have a major impact for millions of people's health across the world.

It can make users physically repulsed by food.

Proponents say it's a miracle diet drug.

Critics call it an eating disorder in an injection.

Music Critics call it an eating disorder in an injection. But behind the head and waist lines is a long story of scientific discovery.

And at the centre of its first chapter, a woman most people have never heard of.

We meet this Svetlana Moisov. She's a scientist. She sets about to create synthetically

this hormone in a lab. And what they find is that it is magical.

Why was Svetlana Moisov not given the credit for the part she played in the drug

that's revolutionized how we eat and live? There's many examples throughout scientific history

of women who have worked alongside men in scientific discovery. In some cases, their notebooks were stolen or they're,

you know, they waited until they left to write up a big research paper on the discovery that they

made together and very much took it for themselves. Lana Moisov would definitely be a modern

version of this very unfortunate trend.

While scientific discoveries often involve hundreds of people over many years, just who decides who gets the credit, even the Nobel Prize.

The story today, the woman are raised from the who gets the credit. Even the Nobel Prize.

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