SciShow: The Woman Who Changed Drug Development

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Content of the Lesson: From a new method of drug design to an antiviral agent for herpes, Gertrude Elion's works totally transformed the world of drug development. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://jwa.org/womenofvalor/elion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kamweFBx0iU https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1988/elion/biographical/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1988/press-release/ https://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/news-and-analysis/infographics/a-history-of-aspirin/20066661.article?firstPass=false https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/flemingpenicillin.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3538499 or https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/074823378600200201?journalCode=tiha https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.pa.33.040193.000245 https://www.who.int/medicines/publications/essentialmedicines/en/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2135445/ http://theoncologist.alphamedpress.org/content/11/9/961 https://www.cell.com/trends/pharmacological-sciences/fulltext/0165-6147(83)90404-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/18790 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/244/4900/41.long https://theoncologist.alphamedpress.org/content/4/2/0i.short https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-in-children/types-of-childhood-cancers.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3091383/ Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?sort=relevance&search=Gertrude+B.+Elion&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&advancedSearch-current=%7B%7D&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1#/media/File:Nci-vol-8236-300_Gertrude_Elion.jpg https://wellcomecollection.org/works/eq42gqut#licenseInformation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercaptopurine#/media/File:Mercaptopurin_ball-and-stick.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aciclovir#/media/File:Aciclovir_ball-and-stick.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zidovudine#/media/File:Zidovudine-3D-balls.png https://wellcomecollection.org/works/gk2w4hjf#licenseInformation https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_James_W._Black.png


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