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Insulin is a hormone from the pancreas that helps glucose move from blood into cells for energy.
means A hormone made in the pancreas that lets glucose move out of the blood and into cells for energy or storage, so without enough of it, sugar piles up in the blood instead of fueling the body.
from From Latin 'insula,' meaning island — because the hormone is produced by clusters of pancreatic cells called the Islets of Langerhans, literally islands of tissue scattered through the gland. Researchers in the early 20th century, chasing the substance these islets secreted, named it for its birthplace before they fully understood its power; the word reached English and other languages in the 1920s once the hormone was isolated and shown to control blood sugar.
- discovery year
- 1921, saved first dying diabetic within a year
- nobel speed
- won nobel prize just one year later
- cost irony
- original patent sold for one dollar
- storage quirk
- too much cold or heat kills its structure