Top 5 Emerging Technologies in 2014

No. 4: Microbiome therapeutics


In the light of the havoc caused by antibiotics, the medical world is faced with the obligation of finding new methods of treating infections, without casing potentially-lethal side effects. Hope comes from the development of human microbiome therapeutics, which represent a combination of microbes normally found in a healthy gut that could treat infections without provoking any unpleasant reactions. Currently, this therapeutic method is under clinical development.