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Natt Garun/DigitalTrends wrote:Recently honored with Intel's Gordon E. Moore Award at the company's annual Science and Engineering Fair, Andraka developed a dip-stick sensor that tests patients for levels of mesothelin, a biomarker found in blood and urine used to detect early stage pancreatic cancer. The sensor costs approximately three cents to make, and could arm patients with the most cost-efficient and effective way to test for early stages of the disease before it quickly grows into its final stages. In comparison, current methods of pancreatic cancer detection can only uncover its presence after the cancer's made its way through the patient's system. Because of this, pancreatic cancer patients have low survival rates; on average, 20 percent of patients manage a one-year survival rate while five-year rates stand at a woeful four percent.

“Essentially what I'm envisioning here is that this could be on your shelf at your Walgreens, your Kmart," Andraka tells TakePart. “Let's say you suspect you have a condition … you buy the test for that. And you can see immediately if you have it. Instead of your doctor being the doctor, you're the doctor."

Jabberwonky wrote:(sigh)
My biggest acomlishment yesterday was not strangling anyone...

Jabberwonky wrote:What, no link?

Jabberwonky wrote:My acomlisment for today is to learn to spell 'acomplishment'...

Fairportfan wrote:

Jabberwonky wrote:My acomlisment for today is to learn to spell 'acomplishment'...

"accomplishment"

Fairportfan wrote:*snrk*

(I cheated - i used spellcheck to make sure i didn't make a topy typing it and make myself look silly.)

Julie wrote:

Fairportfan wrote:*snrk*

(I cheated - i used spellcheck to make sure i didn't make a topy typing it and make myself look silly.)

"topy"?

shadowinthelight wrote:

Jabberwonky wrote:What, no link?

Sluggy forum post here. I can't for the life of me remember why I abbreviated my name to s.i.l. when I signed up there.
The Bun-bun SVG used in the making of said picture here.

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On the original topic, let's see how long the F.D.A. takes to approve this for sale...

txmystic wrote:This is so totally awesome. Good for him!

Anecdotally, I was always the science and math nut in my house, but both science projects I entered for the local fair were canned derivative mediocrity. On the other hand, my "ne'er do well" brother, who was constantly in trouble, had the average science grades and seemingly little potential in science, won several awards for a simple experiment he designed for testing the ability of lead shot from a gun range of leaching into the groundwater.

How often genius is decoupled from academic performance...

txmystic wrote:This is so totally awesome. Good for him!

Anecdotally, I was always the science and math nut in my house, but both science projects I entered for the local fair were canned derivative mediocrity. On the other hand, my "ne'er do well" brother, who was constantly in trouble, had the average science grades and seemingly little potential in science, won several awards for a simple experiment he designed for testing the ability of lead shot from a gun range of leaching into the groundwater.

How often genius is decoupled from academic performance...

Fairportfan wrote:Heh. I'm the one who understood math and science pretty well.

My kid brother (who never got past Calculus 1, and that by mistake on his advisor's part) is the best-selling "hard" SF writer.

Julie wrote:

txmystic wrote:This is so totally awesome. Good for him!

Anecdotally, I was always the science and math nut in my house, but both science projects I entered for the local fair were canned derivative mediocrity. On the other hand, my "ne'er do well" brother, who was constantly in trouble, had the average science grades and seemingly little potential in science, won several awards for a simple experiment he designed for testing the ability of lead shot from a gun range of leaching into the groundwater.

How often genius is decoupled from academic performance...

*shrugs* Probably very often. The person in my family with the highest IQ is also the one person (on my dad's side) who didn't graduate from college (I could say the same of myself, but I at least got my Associates degree in my initial attempt at college, and I'm currently working on finishing my Bachelors...he's in his 60s and never got any paper beyond a high school diploma).