Category: Technology
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Controversy Surrounding He Jiankui and the First ‘CRISPR Babies’
Rachel Lim ‘29 On November 28, 2018, Chinese geneticist He Jiankui announced the birth of the first gene-edited human babies in the world. As soon as he finished presenting his work at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong, he was promptly bombarded by questions from scientists and journalists in the…
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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.…