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German Physician Makes a Discovery
A physician from Germnay finds that removing a pancreas causes diabetes. He then tried extracting an antidiabetic substance from the pancreas but failed. -
Life Expectancy
Average life expectancy for a 10 year old diabetic was only 1.3 years. People diagnosed at age 30 have a life expectancy of an additional 4.1 years. As you can see, diabetic treatments advanced since then. In the 1800s and even the early 1900s there were little to none known working treatments. -
Frederick Banting Makes Insulin Discovery
In May odf 1921, Banting makes a triumphant discovery of insulin by extracting substances through many trials with dogs. He gave material from islets of Langerhans to diabetic dogs and their blood sugar levels decreased. -
First Human Receives Insulin
Banting and Best administered insulin to a 14 year old boy, but it failed. -
Purified Insulin Injections Developed
Collip developed insulin injections that effectively dropped glucose levels and suddenly news spread of this breakthrough. -
Banting & Macleod
These two men got the Nobel Proze for their discovery of insulin. -
Commercial Production of Insulin
Insulin begins to be commercially produced and used to treat diabetes in most Western countries. -
Crystallized Insulin
J.J. Abel makes insulin that is crystallized. -
Insulin Syringe is Developed
The standard insulin syringe was made and helped insulin management more uniform. -
Sanger Discovers Insulin's Composition
Sanger discover insulins 51 amino acids linked by disulfide bridges and wins the Noble Prize for it. -
Berson & Yalow Make a Scientific Investigation
Berson and Yalow helped create a way for minute concentrations of insulin to be measured. -
First Insulin Pump Created
The very first pump could deliver both glucagon and insulin and was the size of a small backpack. Dr.Kadish lead this creation. -
Hodgin Makes a 3D Model
Hodgin made an insulin 3D model that was worthy of winning the nobel prize. -
Insulin and Their Longevity
Today, we now have rapid acting insulin (15-30 min before affect) and last a couple hours), short acting (lasts 6-8 hours), intermediate acting (lasts 18-26 hours), and long acting (lasts 29-36 hours). -
Insulin Administration
Today, we now have different ways to get insulin into diabetics in the easiest ways. These ways of insulin administration include: syringes, pens, external pumps, inhalable, and insulin jet injectors. -
We Have Made Progress
According to diabeticlifestyle.com, 15 million people are living with diabetes today who would have died at an early age if it wasn't for the effectiveness and discovery of insulin.
