Today in history, on Jan. 23, 1922, 14-year-old Leonard Thompson became the first diabetic to receive an insulin injection in ...

The history of Novo Nordisk dates back to the time when insulin was discovered. In 1922, the Danish physiologist August Krogh met with to-be fellow Nobel Prize laureates Frederick Grant Banting ...

The revered John Macleod honed his medical skills in the Granite City before going on to play his part in the incredible discovery of insulin during his time in Canada.

After the war, he practiced medicine in London, Ontario, until 1921, when he and Charles Best began their research into the hormone insulin ... were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine/physiology ...

Banting, who felt that Best should have been recognized by the Nobel Prize committee as well ... the chemist who had worked with them to purify insulin for clinical trials. After continuing ...

he developed a method to read the amino acid sequence of insulin and found that this protein is actually made up of two amino acid chains linked together by disulphide bonds. Nobel Prize ...