Tu Youyou's team resolves artemisinin resistance in malaria treatment

BEIJING, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Nobel Laureate Tu Youyou announced Monday that her team has proposed solutions to the problem of artemisinin resistance, giving new proofs that artemisinin is still "the best weapon" against malaria, the world's No. 1 insect-borne infectious disease.

Upon winning the 2015 Nobel Prize for the discovery of artemisinin, Tu said that the drug resistance has remained a big challenge to anti-malaria workers.