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Tag: Frederick Banting

  • Maligning Macleod and “Bettering” Best: The discovery of insulin as depicted in film before Michael Bliss

    James R. Wright Jr.Calgary, Alberta, Canada In 1921, Fred Banting and Charley Best, working under the supervision of JJR Macleod, made crude pancreatic extracts from duct-ligated dog, fetal bovine, or whole adult bovine pancreata and used these to treat diabetes in depancreatized dogs. On January 23, 1922, Walter Campbell administered a pancreatic extract purified by…

  • Nobel Laureate surgeons

    Jayant RadhakrishnanDarien, Illinois, United States Mohammad EzziJizan, Saudi Arabia Originally published in the World Journal of Surgery and Surgical Research 2020; 3: 1206 under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Republished with author permission. Introduction The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to 219 scientists in the last 119 years. Eleven members of…