Vaccine Technology

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This paper explains how one of the most important health advances of the 20th century has been immunization. It looks at how this development has stopped the spread of several potentially fatal diseases and explains that DNA vaccines have become the most promising area of vaccinology. The paper briefly looks at the technology of DNA vaccines and how these could be used in the future.

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"DNA vaccines have the potential to be used as therapy, designed to treat a particular active disease, such as inducing cell-medicated immunity to bowel, or breast cells that express cancer antigens, thus causing the body to identify and kill tumor cells (Simmerman pg). In fact, researchers are now studying DNA vaccines for cervical cancer (Simmerman pg). For over a decade, investigators have been extensively using animal models to research DNA vaccines and recent trials have used small numbers of humans to determine treatment tolerance and immune response (Simmerman pg). Since the majority of these trials are phase I, they focus on safety and do not measure efficacy, however, in trials for hepatitis B, herpes, HIV, malaria, adenocarcinoma of the breast and colon, and lymphoma, the subjects have tolerated the vaccines relatively well (Simmerman pg)."

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