Gay Teen Creates Early Detection Cancer Test

[Fearless]

Jack Andraka discovered a near-100 per cent accurate test for pancreatic cancer that diagnoses early enough to ensure an almost 100 per cent chance of survival. In context: only 5.5 per cent of those diagnosed currently survive for five years. Andraka’s test, 400 times more sensitive, 168 times faster and 26,000 times cheaper than today’s, will revolutionize that. It can also be applied to ovarian and lung cancer.

Jack, now 16, is certainly not average. His light bulb idea occurred while reading an article on carbon nanotubes in a journal he’d smuggled into biology class under his hoodie. He recognized that nanotubes could suspend a protein, which, when coated on strips of filter paper, could cheaply and reliably test for pancreatic cancer (the disease killed both a family member, and his hero, Steve Jobs). “Just after I had my ‘eureka’ moment,” he says, “the teacher stormed over and confiscated the journal.”

He wrote to 200 professors begging to develop his theory. All but one rejected him. Dr Anirban Maitra, at the Sol Goldman Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore was prepared to take the risk. “Because of the laws on child labor, I was ‘a volunteer’ and snuck into the lab through a back door,” says Andraka.

The potential of his discovery is huge: “You can switch the antibody to detect all kinds of diseases: HIV and Aids, Alzheimer’s, heart disease,” he explains.

http://instinctmagazine.com/post/gay-teen-creates-early-detection-cancer-test#sthash.5ErtUJ7G.dpuf

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[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Wouldn't it be great if his name were Sheldon?

[rurallib]

2. Hats off to Jack Andraka. Once again proving

that it is not skin color or religious belief or sexual orientation that makes a person. In the end all of that should be irrelevant and (to use a long ago coined term) it should be the content of the character.

And as a human with progeny, I hope Mr. Andraka has a long and continued success and advances humanity.

[wildeyed]

3. Sounds like an awesome kid.

Love his analysis of our "bulimic education system".

[Swede Atlanta]

4. Thank God for Jack Andraka!!!

I am surprised that none of the 200 even entertained his theory. I am glad it has finally come to light.

This is likely not a matter of ignoring something from a gay teen. I doubt seriously if the professors even know of his personal identity. It is more likely to have been his presentation or even his age.

But this has the potential to be significant. I believe this young man has many opportunities before him and that should include his right to marry the man of his choice.

[RKP5637]

5. K&R !!!