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Insulin - The Crooked Timber - A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold (Hardcover)
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Insulin - The Crooked Timber - A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold (Hardcover)
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Before the discovery of insulin, a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes was
a death sentence. One hundred years after a milestone medical
discovery, 'Insulin - The Crooked Timber' tells the story of how
insulin was transformed from what one clinician called 'thick brown
muck' into the very first drug to be produced using genetic
engineering, one which would earn the founders of the US biotech
company Genentech a small fortune. Yet when Canadian doctor
Frederick Banting was told in 1923 that he had won the Nobel Prize
for this life-saving discovery, he was furious. For the prize had
not been awarded to him alone - but jointly with a man whom he felt
had no right to this honour. The human story behind this discovery
is one of ongoing political and scientific controversy. Taking the
reader on a fascinating journey, starting with the discovery of
insulin in the 1920s through to the present day, 'Insulin - The
Crooked Timber' reveals a story of monstrous egos, toxic career
rivalries, and a few unsung heroes such as two little known
scientists whose work on wool fibres, carried out in a fume-filled
former stable, not only proved to be crucial in unravelling the
puzzle of insulin but ushered in a revolution in biology. It was
the author's own shocking diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes that
prompted him to sit down and write this book, but this story has
lessons for us all about what technology can - and more importantly
cannot - do for us. As the world pins its hopes on effective and
lasting vaccines against Covid-19, these lessons from the story of
insulin have never been more relevant.
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