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Sir Frederick Grant Banting with the help of Charles Best discovered insulin. (not spelt insuline)

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Medical researcher Frederick Banting and research assistant Charles Best.

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Insulin was invented by whom?

Dr. Frederick Banting discovered insulin as a treatment for diabetes in 1921.


What is the hormone discovered by Frederick Banting and JJR Macleod called?

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What was the main discovery of the Romanian physiologist Nicolae Paulescu in 1921?

He discovered insulin.


What did Frederick Banting and Charles Best do?

They discovered insulin in 1922.Insulin.


What year was insulin discovered?

well i don't know. go to Google and find out there.


How many people died because of diabetes before insulin was discovered?

Impossible to know. Sorry.


Which medicine can cause heart attack and is not discovered in autopsy?

INSULIN is the only medicine that does the trick....


When was insulin developed?

Insulin was discovered as being the mechanism by which carbohydrate is turned into energy by the body.


Why did Frederick Banting invent insulin?

Insulin was actually discovered by Nicolae Paulescu, a Romanian scientist in 1916. His work predated that of Fredrick Banting by five years, although Banting went on the win the Nobel Prize along with John Mcleod, although Charles Best was not recognized for the contributions to their re-discovery of insulin. The common misconception that insulin was "invented" by Canadians persists to this day. Also, insulin is a naturally occurring substance and thus was discovered. However, different means by which it can by synthesized have been invented.


When did Fredrick Banting invent insulin?

Insulin was actually discovered by Nicolae Paulescu, a Romanian scientist in 1916. His work predated that of Fredrick Banting by five years, although Banting went on the win the Nobel Prize along with John Mcleod, although Charles Best was not recognized for the contributions to their re-discovery of insulin. The common misconception that insulin was "invented" by Canadians persists to this day. Also, insulin is a naturally occurring substance and thus was discovered. However, different means by which it can by synthesized have been invented.


Name of canadian university and department where insulin was discovered?

May be university of Toronto, Phamacology department---please confirm


5 medical advances in the 1920?

Vitamin E was discovered, and so was penicillin and insulin and the first use of a valvulotome.