High School Student Invents Possible Cancer Cure

[jumptheshadow]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57358994/calif-hs-student-devises-possible-cancer-cure/

This amazing girl won a science competition with her invention, which destroys cancer cells in mice. She won $100K and bought a dozen pair of shoes. She is 17, after all...

[HopeHoops]

1. K&R

[Swede]

2. I hope this works.

nt

[Glimmer of Hope]

3. Wow! Why is she is still in high school?

[ohheckyeah]

4. Truly amazing

When she was a freshman, she started reading doctorate level papers on bio-engineering.

I think that given the tools and technology teenagers are capable of amazing things. They have to have the tools that work for them and in the iPad article about algebra scores.

[waddirum]

10. There's always a dark side

Imagine the little braniacs splicing DNA and creating mythological half-breeds using the chemistry sets they got for Christmas. A mini-minotaur to scare their little sister.

Just kidding of course. Congrats to the student for a great achievement and a nice chunk of cash.

[3waygeek]

12. So that's how Newt came to be.

I'd always wondered about that.

[ohheckyeah]

13. You're kidding

but the possibilities could be scary.

[etherealtruth]

5. Proof that shoe obsession and high intelligence are not mutually exclusive

* yes this post is very self serving ... though at no point could I claim to be as bright as this wonderful young woman!

[Occulus]

6. Great idea, and a pretty good article...

but from that article:

"Then she thought shat if you aimed an infrared light"

OOooops.

[niyad]

7. I caught the last minute or so of the segment--what a remarkable young woman

[Cerridwen]

8. K & R n/t

[Odin2005]

9. Awesome!

[rustydog]

11. Hope is on the horizon, tomorrow will come too late.

My brother is currently battling lung cancer. I lost my mother-in-law to cancer last year.

I cling to the hope that one day, one day soon, cancer will not be a death sentence diagnosis.
Maybe this young phenom has one of the answers.