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Vaccines with Antigens s Immunogens prevent disease (even cancer) slide

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text from slide We know that vaccines are an effective method for inducing the immune system to attack specific targets. To make a vaccine, you just need to identify certain proteins unique to a pathogen, and then inject these into an organism along with any adjuvants which raise the immune response. We have already eradicated smallpox from the planet, and polio has nearly been eradicated. There are still many diseases for which we don’t have effective vaccines such as AIDS and other infectious diseases such as malaria. Cancer is another disease which we don’t have effective vaccines for, but there have been promising results. If you vaccinate a mouse with a self tumor mixutre, whole cell tumor lysate, or a tumor associated antigen, some level of protection against that same type of cancer can be observed. Now we need to discover more tumor specific antigens to make really robust cancer vaccines.