EPTGirl Invents Nanoparticle that Kills Cancer - Page 2
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juked
United States691 Posts
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Son of Gnome
United States777 Posts
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anycolourfloyd
Australia524 Posts
i'd also be interested to read more about that team one that looked at walking gait. sounds pretty similar to my honours project. | ||
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s4life
Peru1519 Posts
On December 15 2011 17:30 Bobbias wrote: Guys, remember this isn't a "Cure" it's a delivery system for drugs. It won't magically cure cancer, but it WILL make treatments easier on the body, allowing targeted treatment instead of simply giving a person drugs and hoping that they can kill the cancer before it kills them... That's the main problem with cancer treatments.. there are plenty of substances that kill cancer cells in vitro, 100% effective, but most of them dilute in the blood when used in vivo. Most chemo treatments deal with this problem by using a highly concentrated dosis of this substances which due to their ample spectrum start killing your own cells. If true, this could be revolutionary. | ||
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Kamikiri
United States1319 Posts
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KevinIX
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hahaimhenry
Canada368 Posts
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Keyboard Warrior
United States1178 Posts
I hope they fully develop this one. | ||
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Lightwip
United States5497 Posts
Impressive for sure, but you have to be careful. | ||
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BlackJack
United States10574 Posts
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weeA
India442 Posts
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37095 Posts
GIVE HER A NOBEL PRIZE!!!! (If it turns out that she found the cure for cancer) | ||
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chenchen
United States1136 Posts
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BloodDrunK
Bangladesh2767 Posts
congratz to the girl. hope this turns true for the sake of her and for everyone else in this planet. | ||
mrmin123
Korea (South)2971 Posts
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Lightwip
United States5497 Posts
On December 15 2011 18:00 chenchen wrote: I don't want to sound like a dick and diminish anyone's hard work, but from personal experience, most (not all) of the projects that get deep in Intel and Siemens are basically done by the students' mentors. In many cases, all the high school kid has to do is to tag along and try to understand what's going on and some of them don't even understand their own projects. But of course. How can anyone without a full scientific education hope to solve such a problem on their own when a Ph.D. can't do the same? Medicine takes a lot of hard work, collaboration, and education. It's not possible for a high school student to do more than just a little bit. | ||
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unit
United States2621 Posts
On December 15 2011 17:32 gosuMalicE wrote: The US pharma industry disagrees with you. you still make money, theres just less profit in a cure vs working towards a cure | ||
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rabidch
United States20289 Posts
"Design of Image-guided, Photo-thermal Controlled Drug Releasing Multifunctional Nanosystem for the Treatment of Cancer Stem Cells" drug releasing multifunctional nanosystem treatment of cancer (or just cancer) stem cells | ||
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chenchen
United States1136 Posts
On December 15 2011 18:03 Lightwip wrote: But of course. How can anyone without a full scientific education hope to solve such a problem on their own when a Ph.D. can't do the same? Medicine takes a lot of hard work, collaboration, and education. It's not possible for a high school student to do more than just a little bit. I just want to make sure that people don't blow the news out of proportion. Every year, dozens of high school students bust out impressive sounding projects at Intel and Siemens finals that are more likely than not the work of their "mentors", as most competitive schools nowadays have mentorship programs that pair up kids with researchers that have PhDs. To be honest, these kids are probably much less impressive than International Math Olympiad competitors, and yet get so much more attention in the news because it's much easier to report "girl cures cancer" than "dude solves problem that 99% of our readers/viewers can't understand". | ||
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Zerksys
United States569 Posts
On December 15 2011 17:31 BajaBlood wrote: Not to hate on her accomplishments, but the idea of targeted nanoparticles for treating cancer is not new. Though being able to make contributions to a scientific field at that age is pretty impressive, assuming her work will be useful to researchers in some way. Edit: Just googling nanoparticle cancer gives a lot of hits. Here's an article from 2002 talking about the advances in the field that had already been made by that point. That's kind of what I was thinking. I remember reading something about this in a biology class i took in high school. Edit: LOL didn't even realize it was you. | ||
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