Fred Sanger in Cambridge, England, starts work on discovering the protein structure of insulin and also working out the 'genetic blueprint' (plan) that cells use in order to make insulin.

The sequence of amino acids in the chain determines how the chain will fold up to make the protein, so different ... in the blood to target cells Insulin: released from pancreas, stimulates ...

Insulin is a hormone that allows glucose in the blood to enter cells, providing them with the energy to function. A lack of adequate insulin plays a key role in the development of diabetes ...

Figure 1: The signalling pathway by which insulin inhibits GSK3 and contributes to the stimulation of glycogen and protein synthesis. Figure 4: The molecular mechanism by which phosphorylation ...