Word: insulinâ
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Lilly and other drug makers can easily meet current demand for insulin by extracting it from the pancreases of cows and pigs. The trouble is that of all diabetics on insulin???some 1.8 million people in the U.S. alone?5% suffer allergic reactions to the animal hormone because it differs ever so slightly from the human variety. It may also cause some of the circulatory problems associated with diabetes. By contrast, virtually every atom of the bacterial product is identical to insulin made in the body, and so should produce few reactions...
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