The skin of what type of animal is used to treat burns?
Fish skin, usually from Atlantic cod or Nile tilapia, has anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties that support healing of some wounds including burns and diabetic foot ulcers.
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- Who won the Nobel Prize for insulin?
“Frederick Banting and John Macleod won the 1923 Nobel Prize for discovering insulin, and Banting shared his prize money with Charles Best.”
Reference: The Nobel Prize
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Who discovered insulin?
Insulin was discovered by Frederick Banting and Charles Best in Toronto in 1921.
Who turned penicillin into a usable medicine?
Howard Florey and Ernst Chain developed penicillin into a usable drug in the early 1940s, and they shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Alexander Fleming.