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Meet Rosalyn Sussman Yalow - physicist, innovator, and joint winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for development of the radioimmunoassay technique. a radioisotope tracing technique that allows the measurement of tiny quantities of various biological substances in human blood as well as a multitude of other aqueous fluids. Originally used to study insulin levels in diabetes mellitus, the technique has since been applied to hundreds of other substances – including hormones, vitamins and enzymes – all which had been present in quantities or concentrations that were previously too small to detect. Without the contributions of Yalow to the work of accurate hormone measurement, it was impossible to diagnose various hormone-related conditions and endocrine diseases like type 1 diabetes. Thank you to Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C. for providing our inventor information for the month of May! And thank you for following us for #NationalInventorsMonth