Emerging Technologies for Low‐Cost, Rapid Vaccine Manufacture

Emerging Vaccine Technologies

Vaccination has proven to be an invaluable means of preventing infectious diseases by reducing both incidence of disease and mortality. However, vaccines have not been effectively developed for many diseases including HIV-1, hepatitis C virus (HCV), tuberculosis and malaria, among others. The emergence of new technologies with a growing understanding of host-pathogen interactions and immunity m...

Emerging technologies / Technologies naissantes Real-time PCR and its application for rapid plant disease diagnostics

Rapid-cycle real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods may revolutionize the manner in which plant pathogens are identified and diseases are diagnosed. As the genomics age progresses and more and more DNA sequence data become available, highly specific primers and fluorescent probe sequences can be designed to yield target amplicons to unique regions of a pathogen’s genome. Portable real...

Emerging technologies for learning

Emerging Technologies for Telemedicine

This paper focuses on new technologies that are practically useful for telemedicine. Three representative systems are introduced: a Digital Video Transport System (DVTS), an H.323 compatible videoconferencing system, and Vidyo. Based on some of our experiences, we highlight the advantages and disadvantages of each technology, and point out technologies that are especially targeted at doctors an...

The Manufacture of Veterinary Clostridial Vaccine

Production of clostridial vaccines involves growing the organism (clostridial bacteria) in a growth medium to produce large amounts of toxins, and altering the toxins so that they are no longer toxic, toxoids. These toxoids become antigens which the immune system recognises and hence produces antibodies to act against genuine toxins. After cultivation the live bacteria in the culture must be de...