Analogue insulin
Analogue insulin is a sub-group of human insulin. Analogue insulin is lab grown but genetically altered to create either a more rapid acting or more uniformly acting form of the insulin. This can have advantages for blood sugar management. Similar to human insulin, analogue insulin is laboratory created by growing insulin proteins within E-coli bacteria The process goes further through changing the order of amino acids to allow the insulin to be used by the body either more rapidly or more uniformly by the body than with regular human insulin. This type of process is known as undergoing recombinant DNA technology.
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