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How a Coin Toss Led to the Discovery of Insulin
How Dr. Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered the life-saving diabetes drug. Check out my V2 UPLIFT standing desk featured in the video: http://bit.ly/Newsthink
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Much of the material courtesy of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto https://insulin.library.utoronto.ca/
Correction: 5:46 is from Sanofi Pasteur Limited (formerly Connaught), not the U of T.
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0:18 Banting House image: oaktree_brian_1976 from Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
0:21 Frederick Banting image: New Tecumseth Public Library https://ntpl.ca/local-history/banting-digital/
0:26 Dr. Frederick Banting image: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images. CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
0:56 Body image: Blausen.com staff (2014). "Medical gallery of Blausen Medical 2014". WikiJournal of Medicine 1 (2). DOI:10.15347/wjm/2014.010. ISSN 2002-4436., CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
4:37 U.S. patent from Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
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