Episode 03: Insulin's Birth - Banting & Best

03/07/2025 53 min Episodio 3
Episode 03: Insulin's Birth - Banting & Best

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From a bitter Nobel Prize dispute to the fragile partnerships that nearly unraveled it all, this is the untold human drama behind insulin. A story marked by clashing egos, secret experiments, and credit denied, the path to this life-saving breakthrough was anything but straightforward.------------------------------------------References:The Discovery and Early Development of Insulin - University of Toronto LibrariesThe discovery of insulin: a story of monstrous egos and toxic rivalries. By Kersten HallFrederick Banting, Charles Best, James Collip, and John Macleod - The archive of Science History Institute (Museum and Library)------------------------------------------Music: Sourced from Pixabay and UdioProduced by: Radin AlikhaniInstagram: @rxchronicles_------------------------------------------Special thanks to the University of Michigan's Shapiro Library for providing the recording space for this episode.