One of the first commercial successes of recombinant DNA technology was the production of human insulin using genetically engineered E.coli.

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This statement is true. The production of human insulin using genetically engineered E.coli was one of the earliest and most successful applications of recombinant DNA technology in the commercial market. It allowed for a large-scale production of insulin that was identical to the human hormone, which previously had to be extracted from animal pancreases.

One of the First Commercial Successes of Recombinant DNA Technology