BENG 100 - Frontiers of Biomedical Engineering
Lecture 10 - Biomolecular Engineering: Engineering of Immunity (cont.). Professor Saltzman continues his presentation on the topic of vaccine. First, Professor Saltzman describes the host immune response to pathogen recognition, in terms of immunoglobulin release, T-cell activation, and memory cell production. The production, distribution, and challenges involved in making of the Salk polio vaccine and the modern, oral polio vaccine are discussed. Professor Saltzman then talks about the range of bioengineering approaches that can be used to produce vaccine: attenuated, subunit, and DNA-based. Finally, a life-intervention cost analysis (cost of technology per human life saved) for vaccine was compared to other policies to further emphasize the impact of vaccine on improving public health worldwide. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 10 - Biomolecular Engineering: Engineering of Immunity (cont.) |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Mechanism of Vaccination |
| [00:10:42] | 2. Boosters and Antibodies |
| [00:18:55] | 3. History of the Polio Vaccine |
| [00:35:01] | 4. Molecular, Clinical, and Economic Limitations of Vaccination |
| References |
| Lecture 10 - Biomolecular Engineering: Engineering of Immunity (cont.) Instructor: W. Mark Saltzman. Resources: Summary and key concepts: chapter 15 [pdf]. Problem Set 5 [pdf]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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