Insulin
InventorBanting and Best
Year1921
CategoryMedicine
OriginCanada
About Insulin
Before insulin, type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. Banting sold the patent for 1 dollar, saying insulin belongs to the world. The first patient treated was 14-year-old Leonard Thompson. Banting won the Nobel Prize at 32, the youngest in medicine.
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