Targeted phage-therapy as a replacement for antibiotics.
A huge problem with phage-therapy is that it only works if it’s targeted to the specific bacteria strain that’s supposed to be fought while antibiotics simply kill all bacteria that aren’t immune.
If it’s possible to sequence all the DNA in the blood as Karius does for a dollar that tells you about all the bacteria that there are in the blood and their quantity. Depending on the amount of reads that you do, you also get a good idea of the individual strains of the bacteria.
This information could be feed into a machine learning algorithm that puts out exactly the right phage-therapy cocktail for a given patient.
This would be a way to fight bacteria that works even if bacteria get immune to all our antibiotics given and given that bacteria’s haven’t evolved to be immune to viruses in the past there a good change that they won’t be in the future as long as we spend enough time evolving a given virus to target changed bacteria strands.
Another huge advantage would be that it only kills the undesired bacteria. This means that if we combine it with probiotics we can change the bacteria culture of the spot we care about to be exactly the one we want. This means we can change around the bacteria population in the gut and the mouth. Changing the bacteria population in the mouth will give us benefits like getting rid of bacteria caused tooth decay.
Targeted phage-therapy as a replacement for antibiotics.
A huge problem with phage-therapy is that it only works if it’s targeted to the specific bacteria strain that’s supposed to be fought while antibiotics simply kill all bacteria that aren’t immune.
If it’s possible to sequence all the DNA in the blood as Karius does for a dollar that tells you about all the bacteria that there are in the blood and their quantity. Depending on the amount of reads that you do, you also get a good idea of the individual strains of the bacteria.
This information could be feed into a machine learning algorithm that puts out exactly the right phage-therapy cocktail for a given patient.
This would be a way to fight bacteria that works even if bacteria get immune to all our antibiotics given and given that bacteria’s haven’t evolved to be immune to viruses in the past there a good change that they won’t be in the future as long as we spend enough time evolving a given virus to target changed bacteria strands.
Another huge advantage would be that it only kills the undesired bacteria. This means that if we combine it with probiotics we can change the bacteria culture of the spot we care about to be exactly the one we want. This means we can change around the bacteria population in the gut and the mouth. Changing the bacteria population in the mouth will give us benefits like getting rid of bacteria caused tooth decay.
If we can run these tests in the home, that means we are effectively doing healthcare via RTS game.
I bet people would optimize their health then.