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At https://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=14838212&cid=59217186 I read this sentence

Insulin back then was obtained by grinding up a pancreas of a pig or a core and purifying the insulin contained in it.

What is a core in this context? I looked it up on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core but the only entry under biology was Core (anatomy), everything except the appendages.

I can't imagine it is a misspelling (Of what, dog? Cow?)

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    IMO, it's a misspelling of a crow
    – user68365
    Commented Sep 21, 2019 at 11:07
  • Don't expect good, pure, error-free English from Slashdot! From the articles, and especially not from the comments.
    – Michael Harvey
    Commented Sep 21, 2019 at 11:14
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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because this question is based on a typo and should not be left open and get bumped from time to time.
    – Eddie Kal
    Commented Nov 30, 2019 at 4:50

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Reading in context it is surely an auto-correction error for "cow". Pigs and cows are both common large farm animals and I suppose either would be suitable for insulin production.

Moreover, the letters E and R are next to W on the keyboard, so typing "A PIG OR COE", could be autocorrected to "... CORE".

It would have been easy to correct, but people don't tend to worry about typos on internet forums like slashdot.

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