This is a logical followup to your earlier work on enzymes. Here you APPLY your knowledge - that's what technology is!
Many vaccines need refrigeration while on their journeys to remote areas. Needed are small, easily transported, new types of vaccines.
You can use enzymes as analogs for vaccines. Find a way to stabilize an enzyme against heat, and you may have a way to stabilize a vaccine so that it can be distributed to people in the most remote places. Each vaccine stabilized will mean hundreds of thousands of saved lives.
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| You see, certain enzymes are heat-labile. Under normal conditions they would be rushing around in their solution doing their work.
But in heat, their molecules get bent out of shape and they collapse inactive.
You might attempt to "straight-jacket" the enzyme, or put it inside a tight fence so that it cannot bend out of shape from the heat. Later, when it is cooler, you can release it from its constraints, and it will still be in shape and active.
Get this to work, and it should be applicable for vaccines and the saving of millions of lives.
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For details: www.science-projects.com/VaccineStab.htm
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