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...Harvard researcher who recently conducted experiments inducing bacteria to produce insulin--a major breakthrough in the field of recombinant DNA research--said yesterday that his research team will work toward developing techniques for isolating large quantities of the insulin...
DIED. Dr. Charles Herbert Best, 79, co-discoverer of insulin; of a ruptured abdominal aorta suffered after learning that his son Alexander, 46, had died of a heart attack; in Toronto. In 1921 Best and the late Sir Frederick Banting began working on Banting's theory that the then fatal disease diabetes could be treated with a hormone from an animal pancreas. Holed up eight weeks in their lab, the two isolated insulin. Best later devised a method of drying and storing blood serum and pioneered development of the drugs histamine, heparin and choline...
...Cecile Bombeek before she joined the Josephites, had been accused of stealing more than $30,000 from her elderly patients in order to support a morphine habit. Far worse, after she had been charged with theft, Sister Godfrida placidly confessed to killing three old people with overdoses of insulin because they had been "too difficult at night." But she did it "sweetly," she insisted, and none of the three had suffered. Admitted Dr. Jean-Paul De Corte, a member of the hospital's governing board: "It could just as well be 30 people as three...
EXERCISE AND INSULIN...
...estimated 1.25 million Americans take insulin injections daily. With too little of the life-saving hormone, a diabetic's blood sugar can rise to dangerous levels (hyperglycemia); with too much, the sugar level falls too low (hypoglycemia), and the diabetic may go into a coma...