Reading and thinking to scan the text and find descriptive words about . two two yoo awarded nobel prize the six of october two thousand fifteen. This year's nobel prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to two yoo q winner, whose research LED to the discovery of artists in a crucial new treatment for malaria. Optimism has saved hundreds of thousands of lives and has LED to improved health for millions of people. Over two hundred million people around the world get malaria each year, and about six hundred thousand die from IT. Artisan has become a vital part of the treatment for malaria and is thought to save one hundred thousand lives a year in africa alone. Two yoo, a committed and patient scientist, was born in ningbo, china on the thirty eighth of december nineteen and thirty and graduated from peaking university medical school in nineteen fifty five. After SHE graduated, SHE worked at the china academy of traditional chinese medicine in beijing in nineteen nineteen sixty seven, the chinese government formed a team of scientists with the objective of discovering a new treatment for malaria. And two yoo was among the first researchers chosen in the beginning. Two yoyo went to high and where malaria was more common, to study malaria patients in one hundred and sixty nine. SHE became the head of the project in beijing and decided to review ancient chinese medical texts, define traditional buttonable treatment for the disease. Her team examined over two thousand old medical texts and evaluated two hundred and eighty thousand plants for their medical properties. From their research, they discovered and tested three hundred and eighty distinct ancient chinese medical treatments that showed promise in the fight against malaria, one medical text from the fourth century suggested using the extract from sweet worm or to treat a fever. Two team tested a collection of dried wormwood leaves, but found no effect. They then try boiling fresh, warm word and using the liquid obtained from this to treat malaya. But this did not work either. Their project got stuck. However, two year year would not acknowledge defeat. SHE analyzed the medical text again, and by chance, SHE found one sentence suggesting a different way to treat the wormwood. SHE concluded that boiling the sweet worm would apparently destroyed its medical properties. Using a lower temperature, draw out the extract. SHE found a substance that worked. After fAiling more than one hundred and ninety times. The team finally succeeded in one hundred and seventy one two. Yoo and her team members even insisted on testing the medicine on themselves to make sure that IT was safe. Later, the medicine was tested on malaria patients, most of whom recovered this medicine, which was called artists and soon became a standard treatment for malaria. According to two yoo, the discovery of artisan was a team effort. Upon hearing that he had been awarded the nobel prize, SHE said, the honor is not just mine. There is a team behind me and all the people of my country. This success proves the great value of traditional chinese medicine. IT is indeed an honour for china's scientific research and chinese medicine to be spread around the world.