xTech Futures:
Trends in BioTechnology

Key takeaways

The modern biotech landscape spans a wide swath of innovations, such as rapidly engineered lifesaving therapeutics, ecological replacements for traditional textiles, and biological enzymes that dissolve plastic waste, just to name a few.

People

A path to longer, better lives for everyone could forever elevate the status quo for health and humanity.

Products

Materials that were once shaped by the industrial revolution may now be transformed by the bio-industrial revolution.

Planet

Biotech is blooming in the environment, reactively restoring and proactively preventing ecological damage.

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People

Elevating and extending
human health

Today, we regard strep throat, a disease that killed around one-fifth of those infected prior to antibiotics, a minor inconvenience. In the future, we may look at cancer the same way. Biotechnology is enabling a deeper understanding of human health, a new set of tools to discover and deliver treatments, and a revolutionary ability for people to map and edit their own DNA. Ultimately, today’s breakthroughs could extend our tomorrows, empowering us to live longer and better.

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Products

Starting and scaling a
product revolution

The products of the bio-industrial revolution can be both engineered by humans and entirely natural in composition. We can mirror nature's efficiency and elegance even as we mobilize enormous business applications. To bring about this future, emerging innovations must overcome the most significant challenge of the growing biotech economy: achieving scale.

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Planet

Bringing Earth
back to basics

An infusion of life may be the best treatment for the planet's damaged ecosystems. Bioengineered systems can remove pollutants to heal the Earth, and looking forward, we can preserve the planet by remodeling the ways we fuel ourselves and our machines.

What will be your organization's role in Biotech?

There has never been a better time to leverage the power of biology to save our species, our organizations, and our planet.

If we proceed with care and preserve balance, biotechnology can take us toward a healthier, more resilient future, where profitability and well-being coexist.

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xTech Futures Biotech

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Authors

Mike Bechtel profile photo

Mike Bechtel

Chief Futurist
Deloitte Consulting LLP

Lucas Erb profile photo

Lucas Erb

Project Lead
Deloitte Consulting LLP

Raquel Buscaino profile photo

Raquel Buscaino

Team Lead
Deloitte Consulting LLP

Abhijith Ravinutala profile photo

Abhijith Ravinutala

Executive Editor
Deloitte Consulting LLP

Taylor Brockman profile photo

Taylor Brockman

Futurist
Deloitte Consulting LLP

Hillary Umphrey profile photo

Hillary Umphrey

Futurist
Deloitte Consulting LLP

Heidi Morrow profile photo

Heidi Morrow

Visual Design Lead
Deloitte Consulting LLP

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