Frederick Banting discovered insulin was a treatment for diabetes.
Insulin
Insulin
is a hormone produced in the pancreas. It was isolated in 1921-22 at
the University of Toronto. The scientists involved in the research were
Dr. Fredrick Banting, Charles Best (a medical student at the time of the
discovery), Professor J. J. R. Macleod and Dr. James Collip. On June 3,
1934, Dr Frederick Banting the co-inventor of insulin was knighted for
his medical discovery.
Insulin Process
Discovery of Insulin
Brief biographies of the scientists (Banting, Best, Macleod and
Collip) surrounding the discovery of insulin and treatments for
diabetes. It provides descriptions of their experiments via a scrapbook
of old newspaper clippings, pictures, and a voice recording. There is a
list of books,videos, and links available on the subject of diabetes.
Insulin Process
Banting, Macleod, Best and Collip invented the process for insulin in 1922 which became the treatment for diabetes.
A Great Canadian Breakthrough: The Discovery of Insulin
Helen Free and the Home Diabetes Test
Helen Free
Helen Free invented the home diabetes test.
Helen Free
In the mid-1940s, Alfred Free and Helen Murray were both chemists
working together in the biochemistry research group at Miles
Laboratories, Inc. Married in 1947, they continued their collaboration,
becoming two of the world's leading experts on urinalysis the highlight
of which was Helen Free's invention of the home diabetes test.
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