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Editorial
. 2021 Nov;69(11):2920-2924.
doi: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1090_21.

The blue circle and 100 years of insulin discovery

Taraprasad Das  1 , Padmaja K Rani  1 , Sobha Sivaprasad  2 , Rajiv Raman  3
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Editorial

The blue circle and 100 years of insulin discovery

Taraprasad Das et al. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2021 Nov.
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Figure 1
Figure 1
The blue circle- the global symbol for diabetes awareness and the logo of World Diabetes Day
Figure 2
Figure 2
Left: Clare and Kari Rosenfeld. Right: Alain Baute (circa 2005). Source: World Diabetes Day: Looking at the past, present and future. www.healthline.com
Figure 3
Figure 3
Fredrick G. Banting (1891–1941) [upper left], John J.R. MacLeod (1876–1935) [upper right], Charles H. Best (1899–1978) [lower left], and James B. Collip (1892–1965) [lower right]. Banting and MacLeod received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1923 for the discovery of insulin and shared the prize money with Best and Collip, respectively. Source: Wikipedia.
Figure 4
Figure 4
Original insulin produced by Connaught Antitoxin Laboratories, Toronto, Canada, 1922. Source: Sanofi Pasteur, Canada.
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