Insulin earrings in silver 925

Insulin earring in silver wire.

Insulin is a hormone which lowers blood sugar levels..

Sir Frederick Banting and John McLeod were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1923 for the discovery of insulin.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1958 was awarded to Frederick Sanger for his work on the determination of the amino acid sequence of insulin, a discovery that was fundamental to the production of synthetic insulin.