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Old 01-08-2006, 08:01 PM
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Diabetes Research

As some of you know I used to work for CSIRO and am now retired. One of the last projects I was a part of was the elucidation of the atomic structure of the Human Insulin Receptor. We have now solved it and it will be published in Nature.
I went to the celebration on Tueday last week. It is only now I can bring myself to tell you all.
The ramifications are immense. We may be able to produce a simple molecule to do the same job as Insulin. Time will tell. This may get rid of all the side effects of a sudden rise in Insulin in the system that leads to all the long term use complications of injection.

I studied science for a long time and practiced it for a long time and I hope the bit of good I and many others have done lasts.

Bert

By the way me and and a few other people also invented Relenza, the anti flu drug!

If you don't believe me, just put my full name in parenthesis into google.


Albert Van Donkelaar

Or try
just
A Van Donkelaar

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