100 years ago today saw Canadian scientist Fred Banting hoping to secure his place in medical history with the first ever injection of insulin into a human patient. But the result was disappointing. When he published the work, Banting said that ‘no clinical benefit was evidenced’. Yet only a year later, Banting had received the most prestigious accolade in science – the Nobel Prize – for this medical milestone. How come? What had changed? In a recent interview on BBC 5Live Naked Scientists podcast I explained why…
Month: January 2022
‘Insulin – the Crooked Timber’ – review, ‘The Daily Telegraph’ Sat 8th Jan
Delighted that in a review of my new book ‘Insulin – the Crooked Timber’ in Saturday’s ‘Daily Telegraph’, journalist Steven Poole gave Florence Bell, unsung heroine of the DNA story her long overdue mention in a national broadsheet! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/insulin-kersten-t-hall-review-jabbing-back-stabbing/