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Harold Jennings

Vaccine Victory

National Research Council Canada

Infectious disease is the world’s greatest threat to children, but a meningitis vaccine developed at Canada’s National Research Council (NRC) is saving countless lives around the world. The vaccine protects against meningitis C—a potentially fatal infection of the lining around the brain and spinal cord. Older vaccines failed to protect infants, but NRC’s vaccine works for people of all ages, including children as young as two months. Meningitis kills up to 10 percent of its victims within 48

A Bomb that Cures

A Bomb that Cures

National Research Council Canada

For more than half a century, Canada’s National Research Council (NRC) has been a leader in cancer research. In the early 1950s, the cobalt-60 bomb treatment launched a new era in cancer therapy that has saved millions of people around the world. Since then, NRC researchers have continued to advance the ﬁeld of radiation therapy. In the 1940s, only about one in ﬁve people who got cancer survived for more than ﬁve years. Patients’ prospects improved greatly after two Canadian doctors asked NRC

Health & Wellness

The Good, the Bad and the Toxic

National Research Council Canada

In 1987, National Research Council of Canada (NRC) scientists worked around the clock to ﬁnd out why three Canadians had died and hundreds became sick after eating mussels. The villain, a rare toxin produced by algae, was traced to a single area of Prince Edward Island. Ever since, NRC has helped Canadian food inspectors ensure that popular seafood is safe to eat. Now, NRC is developing advanced tools to provide early warnings of toxic algae before shellﬁsh become contaminated. In 2002, NRC’s

Production of Insulin

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

This type of bottle was introduced to make insulin widely available to people with diabetes. This insulin bottle, filled at the University of Toronto’s Connaught Laboratories in the 1930s, represents the transformation of insulin from a promising treatment into a self-administered drug that has improved the lives of people with diabetes the world over. After University of Toronto researchers isolated insulin in 1922, they immediately faced challenges in producing the diabetes-regulating drug

Frederick Banting, 1891–1941

Frederick Banting, 1891–1941

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Nobel Prize Winning Discovery Frederick Banting shared the 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of insulin with fellow Canadian John Macleod. After serving in the First World War as a doctor, Banting became interested in diabetes. He focused on the potential for tapping the pancreas’ internal secretions to help people with diabetes regulate their blood-sugar levels — since they cannot metabolize carbohydrates, their blood sugar rises to life-threatening levels. Banting asked Macleod, a

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