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Why is the discovery of insulin important?

The only reason I have is that it saved millions of people. O_O

December 25, 2010

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akibari

@squaids: Would you know how much people weighed before the discovery of insulin?

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akibari

[quote=squaids]Coming from someone who was forced to study pharmacology and biochemistry as part of his degree, it helped us understand the agonist-receptor pathway involving tyrosine kinase receptors. Which basically involves the phosphorylation of tyrosine by taking a phosphate group off of ATP.[/quote]

...What language is this :O? Nah I jk. So discovering insulin helped us further increase our knowledge about the....."agonist-receptor pathway involving tyrosine kinase receptors. Which basically involves the phosphorylation of tyrosine by taking a phosphate group off of ATP."?

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akibari

[quote=Milkncookies]sigh, it helped further progress our knowledge in gene expression[/quote]

so basically what the first poster typed?

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akibari

[quote=Milkncookies]scientists took our insulin producing genes and [b]inserted[/b] them into bacteria to produce insulin, why is this important? isn't it obvious?[/quote]

Other then saving life's? Nope.

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akibari

[quote=SuckMyKiss]yea, now that I think about it, it only has one reason. Therefore, it must not be important at all. Insulin is overrated.[/quote]

No I mean for my project I chose the discovery of insulin is one of the greatest discovery's made by a Canadian. So I need more then one reason why its so important other then saving millions of people.

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