Discovery of Sodium-glucose Cotransport
In August 1960, in Prague, Robert K. Crane presented for the first time his discovery of the sodium-glucose cotransport as the mechanism for intestinal glucose absorption.
Crane's discovery of cotransport was the first-ever proposal of flux coupling in biology.
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