The discovery of insulin /

When insulin was discovered in the early 1920s, even jaded professionals marveled at how it brought starved, sometimes comatose diabetics back to life. In the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of a classic, Michael Bliss unearths scientists' memoirs and confidential appraisals of insulin by memb...

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Main Author: Bliss, Michael, 1941-2017
Corporate Author: Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007
Edition:Twenty-fifth anniversary edition
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