Insulin After 75 Years: Still A Heroic Hormone

Insulin after 75 years: still a heroic hormone.

first reported their success in preparing a pancreas extract that dramatically lowered blood glucose levels in diabetic dogs in early 1922.' As early as the Spring of 1922, remarkably fast time by today's standards, this achievement was followed by successful clinical trials in humans that demonstrated the effectiveness of the pancreas extract in lowering glucose levels and preventing death fro...

The Bethe ansatz after 75 years

Still evolving (after all these years).

[1] Humans are willful creatures. No other species on this planet has gained so much mastery over its own fate. We have neutralized countless threats that once killed us in the millions: we have learned to protect ourselves from the elements and predators in the wild; we have developed cures and treatments for many deadly diseases; we have transformed the small gardens of our agrarian ancestors...

0 Still flat after all these years !

The Universe could be spatially flat, positively curved or negatively curved. Each option has been popular at various times, partly affected by an understanding that models tend to evolve away from flatness. The curvature of the Universe is amenable to measurement, through tests such as the determination of the angles of sufficiently large triangles. The angle subtended by the characteristic sc...

Still delirious after all these years.