Insulin

By jasmine.schmidt

  • Discovery

    Discovery
    Fredrick Banting discovered Insulin extract from pancreas of dog.

  • Human Contact

    Human Contact
    Banting and Best give insulin to a person for the first time.

  • Purified Insulin

    Purified Insulin
    Injections developed by Collip were given to patients.

  • Commercially Produced

    Commercially Produced
    There was a shortage so insulin was made commercially and was given out in portions of 5-18 ml and was meant to be taken twice a day.

  • Crystalized Insulin

    Crystalized Insulin
    Abel was able to crystalize insulin into 51 amino acids.

  • Protamine zinc

    Protamine zinc
    First made.

  • Lente Insulin

    Lente Insulin
    First made

  • Small Measures

    Minute concentrations can be consistently measured.

  • recombinant Insulin

    recombinant Insulin
    The first recombinant "human" insulin is produced by Beckman Research Institute and Genentech.

  • Insulin Lispro

    Insulin Lispro
    Dr. Weiss and colleagues describe the structure of derivatives of insulin lispro (the active component of Humalog) in solution.

  • Hormone- binding site

    Hormone- binding site
    Dr. Weiss and colleagues in an international team describe for the first time how insulin engages the primary hormone-binding site in the insulin receptor.

  • Rapid acting insulin

    Rapid acting insulin
    Thermalin prepares for the first clinical trial of Fluorolog™, the first highly concentrated, rapid-acting insulin.