Molecular Biology Of The Cell 6th Edition by Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter

Exercise 8

Discuss the following statement: "We would have no idea today of the importance of insulin as a reg- ulatory hormone if its absence were not associated with the human disease diabetes. It is the dramatic conse- quences of its absence that focused early efforts on the identification of insulin and the study of its normal role in physiology."