Category: Medicine
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Engineered Bacteria Guide Cells to Kill Tumors: A New World of Cancer Treatment
By Arra Ju ’27 Currently, in your body, cells are committing cannibalism. More commonly known as killer T-cells, these cells that commit “cellular cannibalism” exist in our body and carry out an immune response via this natural process of killing foreign cells, cancer cells, and cells infected with a virus. The surfaces of T-cells are…
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New Advances in Understanding Xist and Female Autoimmunity
Depiction of immune response to X chomosome inactivation (Emily Moskal/Stanford Medicine News Center) By Mindy Sim ’27 Eighty percent of patients diagnosed with an autoimmune disease are females.1 What is the cause for this strikingly disproportionate distribution of autoimmune disease cases in females? This is the question that many scientists have set out to answer,…
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CGRP-Receptor Antagonists: The Next Frontier for Migraine Treatment
By Gabriela De Jesús Ríos ’26 Research for migraine headache prevention and treatment is an ever-growing field. As of 2020, migraine headaches have been burdening 15% of the American population both physically and economically with an estimated $36 billion overall cost (Sy & Baldwin, 2020). These costs include direct costs–medical costs like migraine-specific medications and…