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Scientist Finds Cure for African Sleeping Sickness
A 29-year-old Korean scientist honored her departed father, after finding a new way of treating a parasitic disease, which can save hundreds of thousands of lives every year.

Her research was published as biological journal Cell's cover story in its Aug. 25 issue, being hailed as a breakthrough for development of new drugs to fight the African sleeping sickness and other diseases.

Lee left for the United States when she was in grade school and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins' department of biological chemistry in Baltimore. She is still a Korean citizen and her mother and a brother are living in South Korea.

Headed by Lee, the researchers found that the parasites lacking the enzyme elongase were unable to make the fatty acids, suggesting that controlling the fatty acid-manifesting enzyme could be the way to treat sleeping sickness.
Scientist Finds Cure for African Sleeping Sickness
By Cho Jin-seo, Korea Times (August 27, 2006)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200608/kt2006082717312610220.htm

Article: Fatty Acid Synthesis by Elongases in Trypanosomes
Soo Hee Lee, Jennifer L. Stephens, Kimberly S. Paul, and Paul T. Englund
Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Correspondence:
Paul T. Englund...
Cell, Vol 126, 691-699, 25 August 2006
http://www.cell.com/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS0092867406009627

Lab Members
Department of Biological Chemistry - Johns Hopkins Medical School
http://biolchem.bs.jhmi.edu/Englund/labmembers.htm

African Parasite Makes Component of Fat Differently from All Other Organisms
Studying the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness, scientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered a previously unknown way of making fatty acids, a component of fat and the outer layer of all cells....
Authors on this paper are Lee, Jennifer Stephens, Kimberly Paul and Englund, all of Hopkins.
Source: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Newswise
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/522901/


http://photo.hankooki.com/newsphoto/2006/08/27/ensor200608272250490front.jpg
Korean-born scientist Lee Soo-hee is at left with her research on the cover of U.S. biology journal Cell for its Aug. 25 edition.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200608/kt2006082717312610220.htm

[VanIslander]

another RR thread for the "Current Events" forum

[mack the knife]

In any case, does anyone believe anything Korean scientists claim these days? If I had a dollar for every article in the Herald claiming Korean scientists have "found a way to stop cancer"...

[ttompatz]

[mack the knife]

[Julius]

In order to make good, a Korean has to go abroad and be trained in the west

[jaganath69]

If she has lived in the west for so long, is she still Korean? Western trained and no doubt a citizen of the US, would that not make her American?

[mindmetoo]

Canadians like to lay claim to Bell and the telephone even though he wasn't even born in Canada and barely even lived in Canada. All cultures do this. That said, if she was in Korea, it's likely she'd be hounded to death by her parents to get married, quit her job, and have babies.

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