Banting and Best: The discovery of insulin
Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin during the summer of 1921 at the University of Toronto. Since then, this seminal discovery has saved millions of diabetic patients. Before the...
Metabolic Disorders: Critical Missteps in Metabolism
When considering metabolism, what may first come to mind is the breaking down of dietary components to make energy for us to perform our daily tasks. However, metabolism is an...
Answering the Age-Old Question of How to Stay Forever Young
What if we spent 80 years to get to the biological age of 60?” Dr. Nir Barzilai pronounces with gusto. Culminating a near twenty-minute TEDMED talk centered on [Growing] older without growing sicker, his proposition...
Diabetes, Hormones and Bugs, Oh My!
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) results from autoimmune damage to the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas, and is caused by a complex combination of genetic and environmental factors. It is...
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