Unless there are some breakthrough recently, Looks like we can't really do it at scale. Doing a few in lab setting is possible, but you can't really use them in drug.
Quite good actually. Recombinant insulin is one example.
Is this a common form of insulin and how does the price compare to the old pig insulin?
For something like an antivenom that hardly matters. But just curious on what it means for a daily protein dose.
The $25 vials at Walmart are a human insulin. More recent formulations modify the insulin to act faster or last longer, but they are based on human insulin.
Though I'm probably missing a few steps here. A large part of this seems to be possible though, given the success of mRNA vaccines. Though using humans rather than animals to produce the actual protein is less than ideal.
I imagine the harder part is finding the most effective ones to manufacture, as it is still quite costly. Harvesting serum from a live animal has the benefit of harvesting whatever antibodies have been produced, rather than a single specific one, so an effective antivenom might need to be composed of a number of monoclonal antibodies.