I recently wrote an article for a school magazine on the discovery and extraction of insulin and was amazed by what i learnt during my research. If you're interested you can learn more for yourself here
A reason for my interest being that a member of my family has Type 1 diabetes and its horrible to think that less than 100 years ago their diagnosis would have been a death sentence! Whereas today they are able to treat their diabetes with insulin produced by genetic engineering in a laboratory (which is almost identical to human insulin) and lead a relatively normal life.
Do you not think that it is simply amazing that thanks to science humans can carry out the functions of an organ? And does it not make you think what the possibilities are for the future?
An indication of the importance of insulin to society today is that the US military list insulin producing pharmaceutical laboratories as buildings of key strategic importance (Reference Wikilinks)
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