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...been overlooked. Now that imbalance should be somewhat corrected. Last week, after months of careful, skillful and imaginative use of the new gene-splicing techniques, California scientists announced that they had achieved a long sought goal: the creation in the lab of a microbe that can manufacture human-type insulin...
...Insulin is a model system" for developing other applications of recombinant DNA research. Gilbert said...
Researchers must develop techniques to separate insulin from the piggyback molecule, to produce larger quantities of insulin, and to produce human insulin rather than rat insulin, he said...
...addition to these benefits. Gilbert said information and techniques gained from the insulin research may pave the way for commercial production of other proteins...
Commercial production of insulin in large quantities might hold down the price of insulin as the number of diabetics increases, and would greatly benefit diabeties who are allergic to the insulin that is now isolated from slaughtered cows and pigs. Gilbert added...