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Name at least three therapeutically important products obtained through recombinant genetic engineering.

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(i) Vaccines: Prevention of disease like hepatitis B, herpes and meningitis etc.
(ii) Human insulin(hormone): Treatment of insulin dependent diabetes.
(iii) Erythropoietin: Treatment of pathogenic viral infections, cancer.

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