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Medicine

How Biotechnology Turns DNA into Medicine

Quick fact

The first recombinant DNA drug approved by the FDA was human insulin (Humulin) in 1982, produced by inserting the human insulin gene into E. coli bacteria.

Why this is interesting

You’ve probably heard of medicines ‘grown’ in labs, but did you know that scientists can instruct bacteria to manufacture human insulin simply by giving them a piece of DNA?