GENETICALLY ENGINEERED DRUGS AND VACCINES

DRUGS

• When the body fails in making critical proteins, it causes many genetic disorders and other human illness.
• These failure can be fix if the body is supply with the protein it needs
• An example of the genetically modifies medicine is the factor VIII (a protein that promotes blood clotting)

VACCINES

• A vaccine is a solution containing all or part of a harmless version of a pathogen.
• When a vaccine is injected the immune system responds these defensive proteins called antibodies.
• If the same pathogen enters the body again in the future the antibodies are there to combat it and stop the growth before it can cause a disease
• Vaccines have been prepared either to kill a specific pathogen or make the micro unable to grow
• It has little but dangerous problems, the problem is that a failure in the process to kill or weaken a pathogen will result in the transmission of the disease.

STEPS TO DO A VACCINE

• first isolate the gene that codes for the gene
• insert the gene into a harmless virus.
• The virus makes the gene surface protein.
• Use this modified virus in a vaccine.

EXAMPLES OF DISEASE

• Herpes II virus
• Hepatitis B
• Cowpox (that has a vaccine)