Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin
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.
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.
Jeremy Schuetze
Dr. Frederick Banting
Dean Petriw
Leonard Thompson
Jewel Staite
Nurse Anna
Em Haine
Nurse May
Troy Mundle
Mr. Thompson
Duane Keogh
John Macleod
Craig Haas
James Collip
Johnny Sutherland
Charles Best
Ken McNicol
Dr. Walter Campbell
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.
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