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How has recombinant technology helped in large scale production of vaccines? Explain giving one example. |
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Answer» Production of insulin by rDNA techniques was achieved by an American company, Eli Lilly, in 1983. It prepared two DNA sequences corresponding to A and B chains of human insulin and introduced them in plasmids of E. coli for production. The A and B chains produced were separated, extracted and combined by creating disulfide bonds to form human insulin. |
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