July 27 – Insulin isolated at the U of T

from Today in Canadian History · host Marc Affeld

Fredrick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin from the pancreas of a dog. With the help of JJR Macleod and James Collip, the group would go on to treat human sufferers of diabetes.

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