Human insulin was the first drug to get a license to be produced through genetic engineering in the 70s. Insulin is a very important hormone in our bodies, it regulates the glucose level in our system, a deficiency in it or in the mechanisms that it is involved in may cause very serious diseases (e.g. Diabetes) and causes the patients to have to take insulin shots.
This has been the trigger for many researches concerning finding ways to produce insulin on a big, market scale and this lead to the production of insulin using genetically engineered bacteria placed in large tanks.
This has turned out to be quite productive and successful, opening more doors for this field to advance through and giving hope for reducing medication costs due to the increase of the production scale.
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