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Part A: Describe in your own words how vaccines work. Be sure to address the following in your summary
What do scientists target on the virus or bacterium?
What are antigens? What role do antigens play in creating the vaccine?
What are T cells? What are B cells? What are memory cells? What role do these cells play?
What are antibodies?
Part B: Imagine that it is circa 1984. At this point in time, no one has even attempted to create an HIV vaccine. You are the scientist contemplating how to make the very first one. Based on what you have learned about how HIV enters the cell and replicates, how would you approach vaccine development? Which molecule on the surface of the virus do you think would be a good target for a vaccine?