15 year old invents new method of diagnosing cancer

[mercurial]

Not sure if this was posted before...

Cancer, Innovation and a Boy Named Jack

Innovation doesn’t care how old you are.

I’d like you to meet Jack Andraka.
It’s a name you will be hearing a lot about–today, tomorrow and in the future.

Jack is a scientist and innovator. And his work on creating a simple test for the identification of pancreatic, lung and ovarian cancer is simply amazing.

Here are some of his facts:

-His test is 168 times faster than what is currently available.
-It’s 26,000 times less expensive. That’s not a typo.
-And it’s potentially almost 100% accurate.
Here’s what makes it even more astonishing:

-Jack is 15 years old.

So, I just had to speak with Jack. I tweeted him. His reply was swift and caught me off guard. ”That would be awesome! I get off school today at 2:15.” I had been caught up in the clinical implications and had forgotten that Jack was still a student.

Jack recognized that mesothelin is a key marker for certain cancers. To create his test, Jack mixed human mesothelin-specific antibodies with carbon nanotubes and coated strips of ordinary filter paper.

What resulted was a simple “dip-stick” tool similar to what a patient with diabetes might use to measure blood sugar.

But let’s hear the story directly from him:

Full article

 

[shogun]

you need to fix the link by removing the extra http://" from the beginning.

 

[mercurial]

you need to fix the link by removing the extra http://" from the beginning.

Don't know why it did that, but thanks. Fixed.

 

[Devill]

Remarkable.

 

[ponder]

Where's his billion $ R&D budget?

 

[Macethy]

Patent bought out and buried by the large pharmaceutical corporations before Wednesday...

 

[NeonNinja]

His IQ is?

 

[grok]

Real life Doogie Howser?

 

[MyWorld]

The sad part is he claims it costs 3c to produce, some pharmaceutical company is going to get this and charge over $100-00 for a single test.

 

[Devill]

The sad part is he claims it costs 3c to produce, some pharmaceutical company is going to get this and charge over $100-00 for a single test.

Hopefully not

 

[ponder]

The sad part is he claims it costs 3c to produce, some pharmaceutical company is going to get this and charge over $100-00 for a single test.

I'm sure someone is already filing papers for a a patent/IP suite...

 

[Hosehead]

Shhhh. Keep Porchrat away from this thread or it will never end.

 

[Greylor]

This guy is gonna get so much action.

















Bastard.

 

[ponder]

This guy is gonna get so much action.

as much as sheldon cooper.