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3 scientists who discovered hepatitis C saved millions of lives Win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine
The BBC news agency reported on Monday October 5, 2020 that British scientist Professor Michael Houghton and Professor Harvey Alter and Professor Charles Rice 2 scientists. American Winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of the hepatitis C virus that later saved millions of lives.
The hepatitis C virus causes liver cancer pathways. And that is the main reason why people need liver replacement surgery. In the 1960s there was great concern among donors. Being infected with a disease that causes hepatitis. That it was still a mystery Make receiving donated blood at that time be like a horoscope.
Hepatitis A and B were discovered in the mid-1960s, but Professor Harvey Alter, during a 1972 study of a blood transfusion to a patient at the US National Institutes of Health. Another mystery Making the patient sick by receiving a blood donation AND prove that Blood transfusion from infected humans to chimpanzees Making the monkey sick too This mysterious disease was known at the time as Hepatitis without A and BY scientists have been searching for this virus ever since.
It wasn’t until 1989 that Michael Houghton, then at the Shiron Pharmaceutical Company, was able to successfully separate the genetic sequence of the mysterious virus. It was found in the group ‘flavivirus’ (flavivirus) and named it. Hepatitis C Before Professor Charles Rice finished his search for the virus in 1997, he tried to inject genetically modified hepatitis C into the liver of a chimpanzee. And found out that the monkey actually had hepatitis
The discovery of the hepatitis C virus led to an intense blood test. Blood transfusion cases have been eliminated from many parts of the world. And many more effective antiretroviral drugs have been developed as planned. “Does this disease can be cured. For the first time in history, create hope to eradicate hepatitis C from the world, ”said the Nobel Committee.
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