Total Synthesis of Insulin in Red China

London.Western attention is focusing,belatedly,on a major scientific project in China's Mainland:total synthesis of bovine insulin which possesses the full biological activity of natural insulin.The existence of the project,which some Western scientists have visited recently,indicates that China is making a modest but significant effort in fundamental biochemistry.The synthesis of the two chains of which insulin is composed,and their successful assembly into a complete and fully active molecule,was

London. Western attention is focusing, belatedly, on a major scientific project in China's Mainland： total syn- thesis of bovine insulin which possesses the full biological activity of natural insulin.