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The immune system would attack pancreas islet cells that make human insulin, which resembles bovine insulin, and would produce antibodies. Synthetic human insulin (eg, Humulin), derived from a recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid process in Escherichia coli, is now routinely used. The perceived shortage triggered a race to mass-produce human insulin by synthesizing a human insulin gene. |
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