- Nineteen prisoners use cutlery to break out of cells at Winchester prison
- France wants progress in Ukraine before Russia returns to G7
- Italy president begins talks to seek way out of government crisis
- Italian PM expected to resign as political chaos deepens
- Russia says US cruise missile test ‘regrettable’
- Kremlin - No date set for Normandy talks on Ukraine despite Macron meeting
- Egypt court hands out 6 death sentences on terror charges
- Putin says Russian nuclear explosion poses no threat
- Russian panel eyes alleged foreign interference in protests
- Gran Canaria wildfire triggers evacuation of thousands of people
- PM Johnson calls on Germany and France to compromise on Brexit
- Sudan's ex-president Bashir arrives at corruption trial
TEHRAN, May 11 - Google is celebrating what would have been the 131st birthday of haematologist and medical researcher Lucy Wills with a new Doodle.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -Wills, whose study into prenatal anemia helped improve preventive prenatal care for women, studied at a number of schools including the Cheltenham College for Young Ladies, Cambridge University's Newnham College and the London School of Medicine for Women.
Wills investigated in India a severe form of life-threatening anemia that was found in pregnant textile workers in Bombay. She discovered that poor nutrition was the cause after a monkey's health improved after being fed Marmite spread which contains yeast extract.
Wills' continued research proved that folic acid played a role in the monkey's health recovering. Folic acid is now recommended for pregnant women to have in their diet.
Google's homepage features artwork of Wills working inside a laboratory alongside a piece of of toast that has Marmite spread on it.
Source: UPI
Your Comment