The researchers of Singapore are not only examining maggots but also finding whether the wind of their farts has antibiotic properties, which can be accumulated and put to good use. Maggots also eat dead tissue and clean open wounds.

The smell of Medifly in the hermetically sealed lab, which runs by Singapore based life sciences Company ORIGIN Scientia, is unpleasant. Rotting hearts of sheep on the tables are covered by the tiny eggs of white fly. The assistant of the lab is pleased.

On the decaying meat, the capital which makes the Company money and saves lives is budding. The sterile maggots emerging from the eggs of sheep blowfly or Lucilia Cuprina, will soon be spreading on human tissue.

Maggots, which are used in so called debridement therapy eat necrotic but not healthy food, therefore it cleans non healing lesions. It can be used on Patients who face amputations such as diabetics or those with multi-resistant diseases, which do not take action against antibiotics.

Maggots are often the last hope in such cases."When we started in 2007, we treated 14 patients scheduled for amputations. After two months, seven of them were taken off the list", said Medifly General Manager, Donny Lim.