Vaccines
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And we've got pretty good vaccines, as I've just showed you.
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vaccines
and foods; digital medicine; nanomaterials; and A.I. I mean, how many of you saw the winning of Jeopardy by IBM's Watson?
We're looking at ways to make bees healthier through vaccines, through yogurt, like probiotics, and other types of therapies in ways that can be fed orally to bees, and this process is so easy, even a 7-year-old can do it.
I spent many years in grad school trying to poke bees and do
vaccines
with needles.
We have G.M. crops, we have pharmaceuticals, we have new vaccines, all using roughly the same technology, but with very different outcomes.
There is a problem with
vaccines
around the world not getting to patients.
In the developing world, we would hope to reach millions of people with better vaccines, reach them with better medication.
So we turn to the field of
vaccines.
Most
vaccines
are delivered with the needle and syringe, this 160-year-old technology.
After clean water and sanitation,
vaccines
are the one technology that has increased our life span the most.
And that's problematic in terms of the rollout of
vaccines.
One is it could be holding back the next generation of
vaccines
in terms of their immune responses.
Now we dry-coat
vaccines
to the projections of the Nanopatch and apply it to the skin.
So I'll take a step back and explain to you how
vaccines
work in a simple way.
So
vaccines
work by introducing into our body a thing called an antigen which is a safe form of a germ.
In the world of vaccines, what does that mean?
The world of
vaccines
is getting better.
Suddenly we have a brand new lever in the world of
vaccines.
And certainly in the world of
vaccines
that can be important.
We can push that lever to help get those candidate
vaccines
over the line.
Now, of course, we've worked within my lab with many other
vaccines
that have attained similar responses and similar curves to this, what we've achieved with influenza.
I'd like to now switch to talk about another key shortcoming of today's vaccines, and that is the need to maintain the cold chain.
This is a slightly extreme case in point but it helps illustrate the logistical challenges, in particular in resource-poor settings, of what's required to get
vaccines
refrigerated and maintain the cold chain.
The WHO estimates that within Africa, up to half the
vaccines
used there are considered to not be working properly because at some point the cold chain has fallen over.
It's about the same size as France, but it suffers from many of the key barriers existing within the world of today's
vaccines.
There's the logistics: Within this country there are only 800 refrigerators to keep
vaccines
chilled.
And it's a historical footnote that has been achieved by improved, radically improved
vaccines.
And so we started gathering scientists and started learning about population, learning about vaccines, learning about what had worked and what had failed, and that's really when we got going, was in late 1998, 1999.
I would be there to talk to them about childhood vaccines, and they would bring the conversation around to "But what about the shot I get?" which is an injection they were getting called Depo-Provera, which is a contraceptive.
So this is a story largely of
vaccines.
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