Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin

Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin

2021 · 1 min

Scientists Banting, Best, Collip and Macleod at the University of Toronto as they race for a treatment to cure 13-year-old Leonard Thompson of his life-threatening diagnosis of diabetes.

Directed by Mark Ratzlaff · Written by Mark Ratzlaff

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