Biotechnology
BIOT 5910: Vaccines and Immunization
Lecture - 3 credits
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- Emphasizes the importance of using vaccines in order to prevent the spread of infectious diseases and viruses.
- Discusses the evolution of vaccines throughout medical history (e.g., smallpox, polio), emphasizing lessons learned so they can be adapted to development of new and novel vaccines.
- Explains the molecular mechanism of how vaccines, such as vaccines that use attenuated virus to more novel vaccines that use mRNA, elicit an immune response.
- Examines the importance of immunization in the context of the immune system.
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