Jack Andraka was 15 years old when he won the Intel International Science And Engineering Fair. His invention? Nothing big. He just made a pancreatic cancer test that is 28 times faster, 26,000 times less expensive and 100 times more sensitive than the industry leader in pancreatic cancer detection.
Pancreatic cancer is one of the more fatal forms of cancer, but that’s usually because it’s been so difficult to detect until it’s too late. Not anymore. If Jack’s research is put into practice it could save millions of lives.
If you were the guy charging to use what use to be the industry leader in pancreatic cancer detection, how demoralized would you feel after getting destroyed by a child?
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