Biotechnology?s 29th Anniversary! (Humulin)

[Northerner]

Twenty-nine years ago tomorrow, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Eli Lilly?s and Genentech?s Humulin, making it the first ever fully approved product of recombinant DNA, or what we now call modern molecular biotechnology. Humulin was the first biosynthetic human insulin, produced by splicing the human gene that codes for insulin production into a harmless microbe. Previously, diabetics who needed supplemental insulin used bovine or porcine insulin that was purified from the pancreases of cows and pigs.

http://www.openmarket.org/2011/10/28/biotechnologys-29th-anniversary/