One medicine made in bacteria using genetic engineering techniques is insulin what is insulin used to treat?

Question

One medicine made in bacteria using genetic engineering techniques is insulin what is insulin used to treat?

Answer 1

Type 1 and type 2 diabetes. ****

"All types have been treatable since insulin became medically available in 1921. Type 1 diabetes, in which insulin is not secreted by the pancreas, is directly treatable only with injected insulin, although dietary and other lifestyle adjustments are part of management. Type 2 may be managed with a combination of dietary treatment, tablets and injections and, frequently, insulin supplementation." ****

There are many instances where certain type 2 diabetes are being treated solely with diet, medicine in tablet form and regular exercise to burn off sugar.

Answer 2

diabetes.

Insulin is the hormone which tells cells to take up sugar from the blood, it lowers blood glucose.

Answer 3

Sugar Diabetes.

Answer 4

Type 1 (aka juvenile) diabetes

Patients with this condition cannot make insulin and so they need to use artificial insulin (this is not the case in type 2 diabetes)