The newest thing in
vaccines is the DNA vaccine they are being developed and used in clinical trials as you are reading
this.
Both
the World Health Organization and the National Institute of Health have weighed
in on this issue.
According to WHO ,“The field of DNA vaccination is
developing rapidly. Vaccines currently being developed use not only DNA, but
also include adjuncts that assist DNA to enter cells, target it towards
specific cells,”
NIH
has many articles listed that you can read on the subject. The goal of these
vaccines is to elicit the immune system against a disease with the use of
plasmid DNA. Treating
and preventing cancer is one of its main targets.
DNA vaccines are created by using a single strand of RNA from a live virus, then making a virus dead before they can convert the single strand into a double Strand (DNA) which is encoded an antigen. The goal is to have both antibody and cell-mediated reaction.
The quote below is from the article link shown it is an
excellent article with a good overview of what is being done with DNA Vaccines.
“Many aspects of the immune response generated
by DNA vaccines are not understood. However, this has not impeded significant
progress towards the use of this type of vaccine in humans, and clinical trials
have begun”
Nih web
sit J Biomed Biotechnol. 2010; 2010:
174378.
Published
online 2010 March 28. doi: 10.1155/2010/174378 PMCID: PMC2846346
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