Translations:Insulin/54/en

Medical uses

Main article: Insulin (medication)

Two vials of insulin. They have been given trade names, Actrapid (left) and NovoRapid (right) by the manufacturers.

Biosynthetic human insulin (insulin human rDNA, INN) for clinical use is manufactured by recombinant DNA technology. Biosynthetic human insulin has increased purity when compared with extractive animal insulin, enhanced purity reducing antibody formation. Researchers have succeeded in introducing the gene for human insulin into plants as another method of producing insulin ("biopharming") in safflower. This technique is anticipated to reduce production costs.