Interview with the HDZ clinic director
The director of the diabetes center Diethelm Tschöpe explains how the treatment has improved, what part his clinic has played in it and how patients can reduce their painful peaks.
Heidi Froreich
11/27/2021 | Updated 16 minutes ago
Mr. Tschöpe, 100 years ago insulin was used for the first time to treat high blood sugar. Back then, insulin was obtained from a dog’s pancreas. How is it today Diethelm Tschöpe: Today we can use genetic engineering for production. For this purpose, the gene sequence of natural human insulin is used in bacteria, which is modeled on the insulin produced in the human pancreas. This eliminates the problem of insulin deficiency …