Medical
- human growth hormone
- vaccines - eg for influenza
- factor VIII - a blood clotting protein
- insulin production
Agriculture
- pest resistance allows farmers to spray pesticide without killing the plants
- able to produce better yield of crops that look and taste better
- herbicide resistance allows for farmers to spray herbicide without killing the plants
Moral and ethical issues
- herbicide resistance gene can be transferred in pollen to weed species and lead to the development of superweeds that are resistant to herbicides
- foreign genes can pollute non GM and orgainic crops
