Insulin - The Crooked Timber: A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold Hall Kersten T.
Insulin - The Crooked Timber: A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold Hall Kersten T. Before the discovery of insulin, a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. For the prize…
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Insulin - The Crooked Timber: A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold Hall Kersten T.
Before the discovery of insulin, a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. For the prize had not been awarded to him alone - but jointly with a man whom he felt had no right to this honour. One hundred years after a milestone medical discovery, 'Insulin - The Crooked Timber' tells the story of how insulin was transformed from what one clinician called 'thick brown muck' into the very first drug to be produced using genetic engineering, one which would earn the founders of the US biotech company Genentech a small fortune.Yet when Canadian doctor Frederick Banting was told in 1923 that he had won the Nobel Prize for this life-saving discovery, he was furious.
The human story behind this discovery is one of ongoing political and scientific controversy.Taking the reader on a fascinating journey, starting with the discovery of insulin in the 1920s through to the present