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Banting And Macleod Research Paper

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Collips was able to purify Banting and Bests crude extract of insulin. By the 11th of January of the year 1922, a fourteen year old boy named Leonard Thompson, received the first pure extract of insulin. He was weeks away from death when he received the treatment. However, the first administration of the extract failed. A few days later, on the 23rd of January, they administered the extract again and this time it was a success! At this time, only a few patients were able to receive the insulin treatment because it could not be mass produced yet. In 1923, both Banting and Macleod were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine because of their discovery. (Turner, Novo Story of Insulin - Part 2, n.d.)

In the winter of 1922, Banting and his

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