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To the Editor: With regard to the article by Stossel (Sept. 8 issue),¹ the road of collaboration between academia and industry is dappled with episodes of squabbling and success. One such episode is known as the "insulin famine." In the wake of the discovery of insulin by a team of Toronto academicians in May 1921 and the clinical trials six month later, the Toronto team was unable to increase production of insulin to satisfy even its own clinical needs. Furthermore, the potency of the hormone that was produced in the laboratories in Toronto varied from batch to batch, and impurities . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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