17 year old girl finds possible cancer cure

[Amicale]

Wow, awesome! Good for her, she's definitely brilliant and going places!

What she came up with is amazing for someone of any age, let alone a 17 year old highschool student.

Although, it made me smile when I read about her receiving the grant money/scholarship, so the first thing she did is go out and buy several pairs of shoes, purple in colour, simply because she didn't have purple yet. I really liked that. She's remembering to be herself, and to be a teenager, rather than forcing herself to 'grow up and get serious' just because she's got a mind that's more advanced than the average fully adult mind. I think that's a good thing.

[pytheas]

the succesfull identification and delivery onto shifty cellular (and subcellular) targets is nobel-grade work.

Molecules and receptors used as ID tags, are shed

delivery systems get caught up by adsorption in irrelevant places

Ricin bombs and siRNA gene therapies with collosal collateral damage

in vivo in human the stakes are high

will watch carefully this space

[xSilverPhinx]

Wow, that's amazing stuff, and to think that a 17 year old thought it up makes it even more so.

[Crocoduck]

So many times great ideas in science come from young minds who have fresh ideas but a 17 yo? Wow! The 17 yo girls around here seem to have trouble getting your order right at McDonalds.