The articles on this page provide and essential background on type 1 diabetes and insulin. Many of the visitors that come here are already experts in their diabetes and this page may not be for them.

Having said that I wonder how many realise that insulin has been at the cutting edge of science and technology for almost 100 years, two Nobel prizes have been awarded for insulin. One of the first drugs to be engineered to alter it’s delivery was insulin and the genetic sequencing of analogue insulins int he late 1990’s was literally ground-breaking.

For those new to diabetes and looking for some information about type 1 diabetes and the symptoms you are int he right place too, we start with the basic idea of how insulin is produced in somebody without diabetes and then we explain how this is disrupted in people with type 1 diabetes. We go on to explain the symptoms and management of type 1 diabetes.