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Biotechnology and Its Applications
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Write the advantages of recombinant therapeutics.

How many of them have been approved world over for human use and how many are available in Indian market ?

Answer

Advantages of Recombinant Therapeutics

(a) Recombinant therapeutics are very effective and more potent.
(b) The recombinant therapeutics are safe and  do not induce unwanted immunological responses like similar products of non-human origin.

About 30 recombinant therapeutics have been approved world over.

12 of them are being marketed in India.

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