What is the role of biotech in vaccines?

Biotechnology is used in three different ways in the development of vaccine: a) Separation of a pure antigen using a specific monoclonal antibody. b) Synthesis of an antigen with the help of a cloned gene. c) Synthesis of peptides to be used as vaccines. Use of monoclonal antibodies for immunopurification of antigens. read more

Biotechnology is used in three different ways in the development of vaccine: a) Separation of a pure antigen using a specific monoclonal antibody. b) Synthesis of an antigen with the help of a cloned gene. c) Synthesis of peptides to be used as vaccines. read more

The vaccines can be developed to control any of these phases hence we can have antisporozoite vaccine, antimerozoite vaccine etc. Out of all these, considerable progress has been made in the making of antisporozoite vaccine due to cloning of gene meant for circumsporozoite (CS) protein. read more

At the same time, a 40-billion-dollar-worldwide vaccine market has been created that is dominated by a few large pharmaceutical companies [1 Global vaccine market revenues in 2005, 2009 and 2015 (in billion U.S. dollars) [Internet]. read more