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Recombinant Protein Production in Medicine

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Recombinant DNA technology lets bacterial or animal hosts mass-produce a human protein, such as insulin, by expressing a cloned human gene.

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A bacterial host carrying the cloned human insulin gene produces human insulin directly, where earlier treatment relied on insulin purified from pig and cow pancreases.

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Recombinant insulin is human insulin produced in a bacterial host, not an artificial or animal-derived substitute.

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