How is insulin made?
In: Chemistry
We take bacteria and insert the genes that make human insulin into their genetic code. We then let them make the insulin, kill the bacteria, and filter out the insulin.
Before we could do this, we harvested insulin from animals (like pigs) but animal insulin isn’t as good on humans as human insulin
This is also how we make other hormones too, like heparin, testosterone, estrogen, etc
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