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Ananya Shree

Class 12th
Biology
2 years ago

Why insulin is being extracted from bacteria rather than animal sources?

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Muskan Anand

2 years ago

Insulin for the use of diabetic patients was earlier extracted from the pancreas of slaughtered cows and pigs. It caused allergy and other reactions in patients, due to foreign proteins. So these days insulin is being extracted from bacteria.

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