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Lasso Peptides: A Promising New Antibiotic
Vigneshwari Sivakumar ’29 Antibiotic resistance poses one of the most urgent challenges in modern medicine. However, recent work indicates that lasso peptides may hold promise for inhibiting multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens. Maksimov et al. define lasso peptides as “a class of ribosomally synthesized posttranslationally modified natural products found in bacteria” (2012). The ‘lasso’ refers to their…
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Electric Healing: How Bioelectronic Medicine Is Redefining the Future of Treatment
Chimamanda Udodi ’28 For over a century, modern medicine has depended heavily on pharmaceuticals to treat disease. Antibiotics, antidepressants, antihypertensives, and biologic drugs have transformed healthcare and saved millions of lives. While these molecular interventions are undeniably transformative, they often rely on systemic circulation, traveling throughout the entire body to reach a single target. In…
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Intraoperative Machine Learning Implementation in Neurosurgery
Alex Steele ’28 As machine-learning based technologies begin to be incorporated into the delivery of medical care, adoption has varied across specialties. Some areas lend themselves well to being aided by computer-driven algorithms, while others have less aspects that can be easily addressed or readily augmented with artificial intelligence programs. Among the various medical fields,…