Person: Dr. Saran Narang

Synthesizing insulin in Canada

This article is from the July 2017 issue of Canadian Innovation News. You can read the full issue here. Some of the world’s 415 million diabetics could not take Drs. Frederick Banting and Charles Best’s animal-derived insulin. Another version was essential. By Jassi Bedi Synthesized insulin is a hormone used by 300 million people around…