BotanyNEET 2025Applications in medicine: insulin, gene therapy, molecular diagnosis

Biotechnology and its Applications

Which of the following genetically engineered organisms was used by Eli Lilly to prepare human insulin?

A.Bacterium✓
B.Yeast
C.Virus
D.Phage

Solution

Eli Lilly produced human insulin (Humulin) in 1983 by expressing the A and B chains in E. coli, a bacterium, and then joining them by disulphide bonds.

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