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Discover what motivated Frederick Banting to study and research diabetes. With no research background or expertise in the area, his determined efforts resulted in the achievement of a breakthrough which produced a lifesaving therapy for the illness – insulin. Get a unique insight into the life of this great man, whose work in the field of diabetes has been immensely influential and crucial to our understanding of the illness today.
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