Task One: Prepare a 200- to 300-word history about the National Critical Technology (NCT) technical application your team has selected to solve a local or national problem.
Vaccines have come a long way. Scientists have created vaccines that help prevent the “Chicken Pox”, Polio, Hepatitis and many other illnesses. Not too long ago, a vaccine that prevented Influenza was created.
Vaccines are not needed for every problem and some companies have found different ways for people to take medicine or recover. We all already know that there is such a patch that helps you stop smoking. Before the patch, you would have to force yourself to stop smoking or take pills. Now you can just put on a patch that helps you stop smoking. You can wear the patch everywhere you go, and with the patch on, you do not felt the need to smoke. There are also some big “band aids” with antibiotics that help heal cuts or wounds.
Why not a patch for other things, like the flu? What if instead of getting an annual flu shot you would just have to put on a patch? Think about all the time you would be saving and stopping the unnecessary pain. Anything would be better than those painful shots. Since there are patches that will help you stop smoking it would be reasonable to search for patches that will replace the needle. This will definitely be a big improvement in the world to stop influenza. This will lead to many other creations, for instance patches that will stop sicknesses like the common cold or viruses. The patch will finally replace something that couldn’t be replaced for years. Diseases like the flu are a big deal. Having more than one way to stop Influenza from happening by using the patch will a big improvement in the science world particularly vaccines. Everybody will use it.
Task Two
1.(2007). European comission. Retrieved January 22, 2008, from Influenza research: Eu funded projects 2001-2007
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Funding Agency-EU
Principal investigator's name-Dr. Kenneth McCullough
Istitution-European Comission
2.(2002, August 19). Stanford researcher shows flu shot benefits outweigh costs in healthy young adults. Retrieved January 22, 2008, from Stanford school of medisine
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Funding Agency-Stanford University School of Medicine
Principal Investigator's Name-Patrick Lee, MD
Institution-Stanford University School of Medicine
3.(2007, November). NIAID's vaccine and treatment evaluation units. Retrieved January 10, 2008, from Research
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Funding Agency-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Princiapal Investigator's Name(s)-Kathryn M. Edwards, Karen L. Kotloff, Patricia L. Winkour, Lisa A. Jackson, Robert Belshe, Mark J. Mulligan, David I. Bernstein and Wendy A. Keitel.
Institution-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Task Three
Vaccines have advanced our world's scientific knowledge in many ways. For one, they have helped to cure, heal, and/or prevent many diseases, viruses and other types of illnesses including types of head and neck cancer, influenza and mycoses. In this way, vaccines have provided us with ways of making humans and animals healthier and therefore causing us to live longer, and in some cases live a sick-free life. Another way vaccines have helped to advance scientific knowledge is that vaccines provide scientists with information about how certain medicines will affect the human body and if combined what they will do. That is how vaccines have advanced scientific knowledge.