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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.
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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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