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| In 1986 Colombian physical biochemist Manuel Patarroyo made a synthetic vaccine, SPF66 which has since shown considerable efficacy in the struggle against malaria, one of the world's most widespread diseases. In this interview Flor Romero he looks back to the day when he began to follow in the footsteps of Louis Pasteur. How did you first become interested in science? Manuel Patarroyo: I think my scientific curiosity was whetted for the first time when i was five years old, on the day when my aunt Alicia turned up in Ataco, the village where I was born, with two little dog-shaped magnets. It was then that I heard the word magnetism for the first time. I insisted on being told what it meant. Ever since then I have always needed to understand. Whenever I went fishing and came back with a catch, it wasn't to cook the fish but to open them up and see what was inside. Alejandro Iguera. |
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