Category: Medicine
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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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Helpful Tool or Hazard: How Should Physicians Treat AI Chatbots Providing Medical Advice?
Alex Steele ’28 As long as the internet has been publicly accessible, individuals have used it to search for medical information. By 2002, when more than half of Americans had internet access, 80% of U.S. adults online were estimated to have searched for health-related information on the web (McMullan, 2006). Throughout the 2000s and 2010s,…
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The Rise of Digital Phenotyping in Mental Health
Chimamanda Udodi ’28 Each day, often without our awareness, our phones collect small clues about our lifestyle, including typing speed, sleep-wake patterns, phone use, daily routes, and social interactions. Experts in digital mental health have uncovered a new possibility for this data: the ability to identify subtle mood shifts before individuals become aware of them.…