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the hormone that knocks on your cells and says let the sugar in.
means a pancreatic hormone that lets glucose move from your blood into your cells for energy or storage.
from from latin insula, island — because it is made by the islets of langerhans, tiny hormone-producing islands scattered in the pancreas.
nobel prizebanting and macleod won it in 1923
first patienta dying 14 year old boy recovered in 1922
patent soldfor one dollar, so everyone could afford it
first biotech drughuman insulin made by engineered bacteria, 1978
for instance
humalog — eli lilly rapid acting insulin, launched 1996
leonard thompson — first human ever treated with insulin, toronto 1922