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A vaccine is a substance that contains all or part of an infectious version of a disease-causing organism. when the vaccine is administered to a person, the person's immune system attacks the noninfectious version of the organism and learns to recognize its surface proteins. the next time the immune system comes in contact with the same surface proteins, it has a defense already prepared in order to respond quickly to the invading organism. in this way, a vaccine gives people immunity to the disease-causing organism. vaccines can be life-saving, but there have been a few cases of people catching a disease from the administered vaccine.

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The question is; how might genetically engineered organisms solve this problem? I think this may be done by making it cheaper and easier to administer vaccines. All vaccines are genetically modified in a certain way. A gene may be programmed to produce an antiviral protein in bacterial cell. Once sealed into the DNA, the bacteria is now effectively re-programmed to replicate this antiviral protein. Recombinant engineered vaccines are being extensively explored, and this may help solve the problem described above.
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