Time line of Insulin
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Updated: 21 Jan 2020
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Created byRichard Dow
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Islets of Langerhans discovered.Dogs pancreas used to study digestion.Eugine Opie discovers insulin producing cellsIslets of Langerhans discoveredImprovements made to insulin.First person experimented on with insulin.Banting and Macleod win nobel prize in physiology.More improvements made to insulin.NPH marketed by Novo NordiskBritish biochemist Frederick Sanger sequences insulin.Insulin is synthisized.First synthetic "human" insulin produced.Synthetic insulin renamed Human insulin.Insulin pump released.Humalog hits market.Islet cell transplants first begin.Artificial pancreas created.Bionic pancreas created .
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