China FDC on "50th Anniversary of the Total Synthesis of Crystalline Bovine Insulin"

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50th Anniversary of the Total Synthesis of Crystalline Bovine Insulin

Date of Issue : 17 September 2015

In 1965, the Institute of Biochemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) joined hands with Peking University and the Institute of Organic Chemistry under CAS to complete the total synthesis of crystalline bovine insulin. This was the first synthesized protein with full biological activity and identical chemical structure to native insulin molecules.