1. Biodegradable polymers may be applied to traditional vaccines. 2. It uses a disabled version of the live influenza virus, instead of the killed virus found in traditional vaccines. 3. Researchers turned to DNA vaccines for AIDS only after years of trying to make traditional vaccines to elicit antibodies to the AIDS virus. 4. Traditional vaccines are designed to stimulate the production of antibodies against infectious organisms, such as polio or hepatitis virus. 5. Traditional vaccines that harness this mechanism have brought many devastating diseases under control, from polio to smallpox. 6. Traditional vaccines are made of proteins from microorganisms like viruses or bacteria or are made of killed or disabled microorganisms. 7. Traditional vaccine efforts have failed, and once a person contracts herpes, they will carry the virus for life, although some symptoms can be treated. 8. While traditional vaccines remain the backbone of immunization, researchers can now also use bioengineering in products like the pertussis or whooping cough vaccine. 9. It is a more traditional vaccine, made from the outer wrapper of the AIDS virus. 10. The new vaccine is different from traditional vaccines used in the past. |