To find out how much insulin you need, it may help to calculate the insulin sensitivity factor. However, this calculation alone does not always determine how much insulin you need. The pancreas ...

Fred Sanger in Cambridge, England, starts work on discovering the protein structure of insulin and also working out the 'genetic blueprint' (plan) that cells use in order to make insulin.

Long-acting insulin helps people with diabetes maintain normal blood sugar levels throughout the day. Unlike short-acting insulin, it never peaks, keeping an even sugar level in your blood.

Insulin's instability lies in its enhanced susceptibility to chemical degradation and formation of insoluble fibrils (fibrillation). We hypothesize that flexible elements in the secondary structure ...