Science groups and analysts at Thomson Reuters have come up with a method of predicting which emerging technologies and advances in medicine could gain widespread traction by 2025. For this purpose, they studied recently published scientific papers and innovation patents. The scientists considered those papers that had been cited a large number of times as being more influential. They also ranked the patent classifications by the number of recent patents in a certain category.
The core assumption of their study is that if the entrepreneurial and scientific communities are putting particular effort into a certain innovation, new therapy or scientific discovery today, they will make some significant progress within the next ten years. According to this assumption, true, the researchers of future trends have come with a list of top innovations and medical technologies that will alter our world between now and the year 2025.
The analysts for New York's Thomson Reuters have made their future predictions on a study conducted for the Intellectual Property and Science business. By looking at global trends and patent data today, the experts concluded that by 2025 the worlds of tech and biology will drastically change.
Within the next ten years, it might become possible to map individual's DNA in order to prevent developing disease. According to the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the landscape of science, technology, and medicine in the next ten years will present multiple hot spots of innovation that will lead to tomorrow's biggest breakthroughs. The most exciting developments are expected to emerge in health care over the next decade.
According to Thomson Reuters, by 2025 dementia will decline everywhere in the world. When the "baby boomer" generation will start to reach their 80s, more scientific funds will be directed to solve illnesses and afflictions that they may encounter. Type 1 diabetes will become preventable, due to the advances in the emerging field of genomics.
By 2025, modifying the human genome will become a common reality, helping to prevent diseases such as diabetes type 1. DNA mapping at birth will probably become the common norm. The widespread "Big Data" technologies and the evolution of nanotechnologies will make DNA mapping at birth part of the regular annual medical check-up. Advancements in biological molecule engineering will advance allow modifying humans to treat diseases. This is currently one of the leading fields in areas of genetic-engineering patenting.
Nutrition will improve everywhere across the globe, thanks of the advancements in lighting and imaging technologies, combined with genetic crop modification. Food price fluctuations and food shortages will become things of the past and malnutrition will be eradicated in Africa.
Cancer treatments will improve and will have minimized side effects. Drug development and techniques for drug delivery will become so precise that the negative side effects of chemotherapy will be reduced significantly. The new cancer treatments will focus on enhancing the body's natural healing abilities through boosting its immune system, as well as using antibodies and binding drugs to specific proteins to provide precise mechanisms of action.
