Thread: Amazing people..

Thought this may be a good topic for a thread...

Amazing people, people who have or are doing amazing things, people we wouldnt have heard of without someone telling us..

Here's one to start off..

BBC - Future - The teenage scientist revolutionising cancer detection

Pancreatic cancer 's high death rate is partly blamed on the difficulty of early detection. Teenage scientist Jack Andraka has come up with a cheap and simple way to test for it.

Pancreatic cancer is a killer – and one that is very hard to detect. One of the reasons its survival rate is so poor that it has few symptoms in the early stages.

Partly spurred by the death of his uncle, 16-year-old scientist and researcher Jack Andraka vowed to find a quick and cheap way to test for signs of the disease.

Andraka's research – incuding writing to 200 science professors – led to him developing a dipstick diagnostic test which searches for a biomarker for pancreatic cancer. It can also be used to test for lung and ovarian cancer.




The cost of this test is incredible.... 3c a tester!!!!

an amazing lad, with a clear sense of what his invention can achieve...
Isnt it incredible that sometimes all the huge research and complex attempts at solutions can be bettered by such a simple almost obvious solution ..

Originally Posted by Chucaro

This are the kind of people that need support, thanks for the post.

x2


Cheers Ean