Beautiful Canada

Protein that saves you from death: On July 27, 1921, Canadian physiologist Frederick Banting first isolated insulin. In January 1922, an unknown young Canadian scientist, Frederick Banting, for the first time in history, saved the life of a diabetic boy by injecting him with insulin. For many centuries, people did not know a remedy to combat this disease, and the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus left the patient no hope. Banting's discovery, for which he and John MacLeod were awarded the Nobel Prize, saved the lives of millions. And although diabetes mellitus is still incurable, thanks to insulin, people have learned to keep this disease under control.