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Created: 2025-07-21 02:22:38 UTC

5/ **Insulin:** 🍭🔬 Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin in 1921 while researching ways to treat diabetes. This life-saving hormone was initially found through animal experiments, leading to a breakthrough that changed the treatment of diabetes forever!


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