On Banting's 100th birthday, the IDF and WHO declare World Diabetes Day to spread awareness about the illness throughout the world during a rising diabetes epidemic.
Banting, with aid from his assistant, Charles Best, figures out how to extract insulin from animals and carries out the first injection insulin. Initially a failure, after a few tries they were able to do so with no side effects.
Born in Ontario, Banting was one of the two scientists who led the research into discovering insulin.
Doctors diagnosing diabetes would taste the urine of the patient.
