Science is not easy to predict. We cannot know what great discoveries will occur in the year that has just begun. However there are some scientific milestones of 2025 which we already have an idea of, as they are planned dates or steps forward in investigations that have already begun.
From medicine to space sciences, there are many disciplines in which great news is expected. Some may be successful and others not; But if everything goes according to plan, all these scientific milestones in 2025 will go down in history.
Let’s look at just 5 of them. There will be others planned that are not on the list, and above all many others that we are not even expecting. Some disciplines, e.g. artificial intelligence, precision medicine or geneticsare advancing with giant strides, so it would not be at all strange to make very interesting discoveries in these areas. Above all, we hope that science will not have to face problems similar to those that arose in 2020. But if we have to, we also hope that through the work of scientists, the public will have the tools to achieve this goal.
SpaceX is preparing to make history
It’s been a rare year lately where SpaceX hasn’t somehow made history. This isn’t always a good thing. Without a doubt, light pollution from satellite trains is not the best way to make history. But it’s also true that when it comes to scientific milestones, Elon Musk’s space company is usually a very repetitive name.
This year 2024, for example, was the first time it was possible to recover a rocket for reuse in the middle of its fall to Earth, thanks to some robotic weapons. By 2025, SpaceX engineers plan to do something even more incredible. This will be in March, when the procedure by which the ship I’ll transfer the fuel to another in full flight. This is something that has never been done and would be very useful for future space travel.
New Ozempic among the scientific milestones of 2025?
Without a doubt, 2024 was the year Ozempic. This drug, consisting of semaglutideused to treat diabetes because it helps the pancreas produce insulin when blood glucose levels are high. Among its side effects are loss of appetite. So when rumors spread on social media that this might be a good thing weight loss drugconsumers flocked to pharmacies. In countries where there is no control over prescribed drugs, there has been a large shortage and people with diabetes were unable to access the medications they so desperately needed.
Many awareness campaigns have been carried out in this regard, but in addition, many scientists have intensified their efforts to find a drug that actually helps in weight loss. Thus, there would be no need to resort to Ozempic. Some clinical trials are underway. However, 2025 may be the year when there will be more to talk about. reporteddrug developed by a pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and companywhose role is to act as a ternary receptor glucagon. This is a hormone that is involved in processes such as regulating energy expenditure or ensuring satiety. Therefore, its use would be very interesting.
IN Phase II clinical trials Very good results have already been obtained: in just 11 months, the weight of the participants decreased by 24%. If all goes well, then in 2025. phase III. This could be one of the scientific milestones of the year, as it would mark the early commercialization of the drug to treat people with obesity.
Improved digestion thanks to microbiota
digestive microbiotalittle known as flora, has been a leading scientific achievement and research essential to the advancement of medicine for many years. Today we know that microorganisms that naturally live in our intestines protect us from many diseases and help us with processes such as digestion. But, in addition, we know that they are connected to other systems of the body. Even the operation brain appears to be related to the composition of the microbiota.
We have also known for some time that fecal transplantation from a healthy person can help improve the diversity of microorganisms that make up the patient’s microbiota. All of this has been studied for a long time, but given the current state of open research, 2025 is expected to see many scientific milestones related to this area of medicine.
The Year of Quantum Computing
It is unclear what the scientific milestones around this project will be. quantum computingbut it is clear that this will be an important year in this regard. After all, the United Nations classified 2025 as International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ).
This discipline is almost in its infancy. So far there hasn’t been much progress, but what has been achieved is really promising. For example, recently IBM and the Cleveland Clinic They installed the world’s first quantum computer involved in health research. Thanks to this, questions related to the discovery new drugs which could not yet be processed by modern supercomputers.
We have already seen that Artificial intelligence This will help us discover new proteins with pharmacological potential. In fact, the algorithms with which they were achieved became the protagonists of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. It is not surprising that great scientific milestones in this matter await us in 2025. We just have to wait a little longer to meet them.
New collaboration will lead to new scientific advances
Another of the great scientific milestones of 2025 will be the first collaboration between Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and NASA. Together they will launch the NISAR spacecraft, which will scan most of the land and its ice almost every week. Thanks to two radar instruments that can see through clouds both day and night, the spacecraft will measure the movement of the Earth’s surface to within a fraction of an inch. This will help scientists track ground movements that can be precursors to volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. These are phenomena that are impossible to predict today, so there is no doubt that a great scientific milestone awaits us if all goes well.
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