Chinese, Irish, Japanese win Nobel medicine prize

[Beast]

hope China's life expectancy increases faster than now.

Long life expectancy is useless if the body is not healthy. I hope at age of 80 plus, I still can run.

 

[CHN Bamboo]

@AndrewJin remember one of the professor saying:

heath is the most important, you got to live long enough first to see the Nobel..

Cool avatar...!

hope China's life expectancy increases faster than now.

Care ur health...Not the expectancy...

Long life expectancy is useless if the body is not healthy. I hope at age of 80 plus, I still can run.

If I can live that long...
Maybe I can see many changes in China.
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[jhungary]

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Also, she gets half the prize!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@AndrewJin @FairAndUnbiased @tranquilium @Edison Chen @cirr @cnleio

Finally we asians are breaking the final forte of Europeans!



Who are the others?

I don't consider Peace, Literature and Economics to be worthy of noble so remove them.

A lot of Asian won Nobel prize over the years, unless you don't count Japanese Asian

Hideki Yukawa (Japanese) won the 1949 prize for Physics, he was born, bred and credit for his work in Japan.

Chen-Ning Yang (Chinese American) Tsung-Dao Lee (Chinese American) Samuel C. C. Ting (Chinese American), Makoto Kobayashi (Japanese), Toshihide Maskawa (Japanese) Yoichiro Nambu (Japanese Born American) Daniel C. Tsui (Hong Kong American) Charles K. Kao (Chinese born British American), Isamu Akasaki (Japanese), Hiroshi Amano (Japanese), Shuji Nakamura (Japanese born American) also won the Nobel Prize in Physics

I am too tire to list those who have won the Nobel Prize of Chemistry and Medicine You can find them yourselves

List of Nobel laureates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Ocelot]

Big hearty congrats to Chinese bros!

 

[zeronet]

呦呦鹿鸣,食野之蒿

This is life, wonderful life. So next time, pick a name for ur kid from 'The Classic of Poetry', in hope that something amazing will happen on this kid.

 

[AndrewJin]

呦呦鹿鸣,食野之蒿

This is life, wonderful life. So next time, pick a name for ur kid from 'The Classic of Poetry', in hope that something amazing will happen on this kid.

The wisdom of our ancestors is amazing. They knew the proper herb to cure Malaria centuries ago.

 

[beijingwalker]

Millions of the world's poorest saved by Nobel winners
Nobel prize for medicine awarded to researchers who have improved the lives of the world's poorest.
Tarek Bazley | 05 Oct 2015 12:09 GMT | Poverty & Development, Science & Technology, Asia, Africa

This year's Nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to three researchers who have made important contributions towards tackling human diseases in developing parts of the world.

William Campbell and Satoshi Omura were awarded the prize for their work on a therapy against roundworm and combating parasites in humans.

Satoshi Omura isolated bacteria from soil samples in Japan, looking for those that appeared most promising in combating microorganisms.

The efficacy of the bacteria were then tested by William Campbell . He discovered one of them was remarkably efficient against parasites in domestic and farm animals.

The result was the drug, Avermectin, which has radically lowered the incidence of River Blindness and Lymphatic Filariasis, and has been effective against a number of other parasitic diseases.




The other prize winner, for separate research, is Youyou Tu, the Chief Professor at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

She is credited with the discovery of an active compound in the leaves of the sweet wormwood plant - long used in traditional Chinese Medicine.

"Tu revisited the ancient literature and discovered clues that guided her in her quest to successfully extract the active component," the Nobel Institute said in a statement.

The resulting medicine, Artemisinin, is the drug of choice in combating malaria and has saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in the developing world.

"These two discoveries have provided humankind with powerful new means to combat these debilitating diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people annually," the Nobel Institute said.
"The consequences in terms of improved human health and reduced suffering are immeasurable," it added.

Millions of the world's poorest saved by Nobel winners - Al Jazeera English

 

[beijingwalker]

Happy to know that our Chinese scientists worked out something that saved millions of lives around the world. that's the true value of the Nobel Prize, to save the people , to serve the humanity. forget about Nobel peace prize, that's an award for serial killers.

 

[bolo]

Just use herbicide and pesticide to eliminate malaria. There are very few cases in Vietnam.

 

[hexagonsnow]

CONGRATULATION!!Her name is very spcial for chinese and she is not from CAS，not even the academician！！But her achievement save millions of people.Well done!

 

[vietnamera]

As she is not from any of China's top scientific authority and achieved such hornor, She should thank culture revolution, when nobody did scientific research at that time, she could dedicated her effort to the project without having to take care the strife openly and secretly in the government circle. There are talented people who only focuses on research rather than bribing higher rank officials to get scientific fund.

CONGRATULATION!!Her name is very spcial for chinese and she is not from CAS，not even the academician！！But her achievement save millions of people.Well done!

 

[bolo]

Does it matter? :3


青蒿素!
It saved many people,many Vietnamese included.

Agent orange sprayed during the Vietnam war virtually eliminated Malaria in Vietnam.

The wisdom of our ancestors is amazing. They knew the proper herb to cure Malaria centuries ago.

Please look into more classical Chinese work to find a cure for cancer

 

[vietnamera]

Agent orange sprayed during the Vietnam war virtually eliminated Malaria in Vietnam.

pls at least show some respect and condolence for the victims

 

[I <3 PAK ARMY]

God bless Asia

 

[The Sandman]

Congratulation to China and Chinese posters on this forum