EPTGirl Invents Nanoparticle that Kills Cancer - Page 3
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elKaDor
Sweden376 Posts
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Flyingdutchman
Netherlands858 Posts
On December 15 2011 17:37 m1rk3 wrote: it's funny how something that's not a major killer (cancer) receives a lot of money, yet something like aids and HIV in africa does not. So many people die from the latter versus cancer. Yet, the amount of money for a cancer drug is 1000 times that of a drug to treat aids. i'm so off topic =p Cancer is the major killer in 1st world countries, HIV/AIDS is not. For 3rd world countries, the sub-Saharan African continent in particular, people die too early in their lives for Cancer to be a problem. HIV/AIDS is a problem there, mainly because the governments have been ignoring the problem, and in some cases even outright denied the existence of HIV. Vitamins are quite effective in keeping HIV/AIDS from killing you, and is therefore a mere minor nuisance compared to Cancer. | ||
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[Agony]x90
United States853 Posts
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Sprutking
Sweden18 Posts
Btw, what did I do when I was 17? Playing starcraft  | ||
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Sated
England4983 Posts
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s4life
Peru1519 Posts
On December 15 2011 18:07 chenchen wrote: 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". Impressive is relative word mr. skeptic. But sure, medical research is a collaborative effort, there is nothing wrong with that.. it is a lot of hard work still. | ||
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HaXXspetten
Sweden15718 Posts
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Lightwip
United States5497 Posts
Much of the United States's research on tropical diseases came from the Vietnam War effort to protect soldiers. If this incentive was not created, who would bother treating an unprofitable disease? | ||
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s4life
Peru1519 Posts
On December 15 2011 18:14 Sated wrote: News outlets not doing enough research to understand that this isn't a new idea... nor will it cure cancer. I hate mainstream news reporting of science. Sure there are plenty of other similar works, haven't read the article yet, but I presume it is dealing with a new set of conditions or else it is targeting a previously untreatable type of cancer cell -- in vitro that is. Caltech research did this a couple of years ago http://inventorspot.com/articles/nanobots_deliver_rna_interference_therapy_patients_cancer_cells_39132 There are other companies that sell siRNA-based nanobots to treat certain type of cancer but their spectrum is really narrow.. but yeah I agree, there is long ways to go. | ||
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Zerksys
United States569 Posts
On December 15 2011 17:37 m1rk3 wrote: it's funny how something that's not a major killer (cancer) receives a lot of money, yet something like aids and HIV in africa does not. So many people die from the latter versus cancer. Yet, the amount of money for a cancer drug is 1000 times that of a drug to treat aids. i'm so off topic =p You're wrong but unfortunately with every bit of unfounded jargon that people put on the internet there's a grain of truth in your statement. Simple diseases like Hepatitis and malaria which can be treated by things like better hygiene and vaccines are not getting the same amount of attention that cancer is getting. So in this you're right. A lot of that money could be put into implementing malaria and Hep help programs. As for research though for diseases cancer is still the biggest one. Also it's the one that is the biggest problem in developed countries. | ||
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Lightwip
United States5497 Posts
On December 15 2011 18:15 s4life wrote: Impressive is relative word mr. skeptic. But sure, medical research is a collaborative effort, there is nothing wrong with that.. it is a lot of hard work still. Nevertheless, I personally do not appreciate the sensationalization of the media. | ||
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blah_blah
346 Posts
On December 15 2011 18:07 chenchen wrote: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". Yes, it's no coincidence that virtually every successful science fair competitor at this level is in the vicinity of a top research center. I mean, for olympiad types, the correlation is also high between proximity to good universities or top magnet high schools, but not nearly as strong. | ||
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pileopoop
Canada317 Posts
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OrchidThief
Denmark2298 Posts
There's a lot of sensationalization going on here, and it's really hard to figure out what exactly it was they came up with themselves. | ||
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ShadeR
Australia7535 Posts
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SnetteL
Belgium473 Posts
It would be hard to imagine that a 17 year old had such a breakthrough in a well researched field while her title doesn't even contain anything innovative. Nevertheless, she must have done something, and to just be involved into this kind of research at her age is very impressive. On December 15 2011 18:45 OrchidThief wrote: I'd really be interested in just exactly how much of this is actual innovation. I've been hearing about local drug release systems ever since I started uni. Sounds like they just meshed together a bunch of technology that people are already working on everywhere gave it a fancy title and called it a day. There is no way this group of highschoolers understands all these fields being thrown together sufficiently to revolutionize it to any degree. There's a lot of sensationalization going on here, and it's really hard to figure out what exactly it was they came up with themselves. I agree. | ||
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Synche
United States1345 Posts
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Terranist
United States2496 Posts
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Vamp
United Kingdom184 Posts
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Kickboxer
Slovenia1308 Posts
Also, this girls is super amazing. I hope she invents a lot more stuff in the future. | ||
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