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A Novel Therapy against Malaria Youyou Tu from China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine used a compound from a traditional herbal medicine to tackle the…

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Prion Diseases Prion Diseases comprise several conditions. A prion is a type of protein that can trigger normal proteins in the brain to fold abnormally.…