Diabetes and transgenics.

We have all heard the occasional urban legend about transgenics, all of them referring to food, but what about medications?

It turns out that all the insulin that the diabetics of the planet are injected is transgenic;In the past, pork insulin was used in slaughterhouses, fortunately today genetic engineering has made it possible to synthesize large -scale quality insulin, safely and cheaply.For this, the human gene is inserted in which the instructions to manufacture insulin are found in a bacterium, and it starts to manufacture it as if there were no tomorrow.

Well, I had no idea! It is good to know, although it would be better to be self -generated!;)

Thanks @con_q_de_quimica for sharing it!

Yes, bacteria fricted with a human gene and, to make it slower, the amino acid chain is modified.
And less bad, that before they put pork insulin, which could produce antibodies ...