Discovery of Insulin
Frederick Banting and Charles Best make an extraordinary discovery
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Show Notes
Diabetes is one of the most prevalent diseases in the world, affecting over 500 million people. Today it is very manageable, and thanks to modern medicine most people can live a long, normal life. But that was not always the case. Before the 1920s diabetes was often a death sentence. At least until Frederick Banting and Charles Best found a way to isolate insulin from dog pancreases. This is the story of the discovery of insulin.
Sources
https://diabetes.org/blog/history-wonderful-thing-we-call-insulin
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6205949/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666970621000494
Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C._H._Best_and_F._G._Banting_ca._1924_Insulin_P10103_0001.jpg
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