Modern Era · North America · Science
1921
Insulin isolated in Toronto
1921
Frederick Banting and Charles Best, working in a borrowed summer lab, pulled the hormone out of dog pancreases and injected it into a dying diabetic boy. The child sat up. Within a year drug companies were making insulin by the gallon. A disease that had always killed children had become one they could live with.
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Also in 1921 (3 other events on record)
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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