What are recombinant technologies?
Biotechnology can be used to mass-produce essential human proteins, for example insulin. What you have to do is discover the gene responsible for producing the particular protein, then insert that gene (recombine it) in rapidly dividing cells, typically a bacterium of some kind. The cells can then produce the relevant protein, which is extracted and purified for therapeutic use.
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