The first therapeutic protein that was produced

第一个量产的治疗性蛋白质
was insulin to treat diabetes.

是用于治疗糖尿病的胰岛素
Before that, diabetics had been treated

在此之前糖尿病患者
with insulin that came from a different source,

所用的胰岛素来自于不同的来源
usually from pigs,

通常是从猪身上提取的
so by harvesting and purifying insulin from pig pancreas.

是从猪的胰腺中提取并纯化而成的
Now most diabetics take human insulin made,

而现在多数糖尿病患者用人的胰岛素
not in humans,

不是来自人体
but made in micro-organisms that are growing in a manufacturing facility.

而是来自工厂的微生物车间
That is a way of putting a cloned gene into a micro-organism

这方法把克隆基因植入微生物之后
and then using that micro-organism as sort of a factory for the protein.

将其作为某种形式的蛋白质工厂
You could do the same thing in mammals

你也能在哺乳动物上做到同样的效果