Introduction human growth hormone

With the introduction of genetic engineering in the 1970s it became possible to produce pharmaceutical proteins like human insulin and human growth hormone (hGH) by microbial fermentations, leading to the development of what is often referred to as the biotech industry. 

The introduction of rDNA human growth hormone (hGH) (70), previously isolated from cadaver pituitaries, greatly improved the long-term treatment of children who have growth failure caused by a lack of adequate endogenous hGH. The major, circulating form of human pituitary hGH is a globular protein of 191 amino acids in... 

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