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Girl Invents Nanoparticle that Kills Cancer

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Wombatsavior
Profile Joined November 2009
United States107 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-25 18:36:49
December 15 2011 08:19 GMT
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What were you doing when you were 17? Playing video games with your friends? Smoking outside the back door of your high school? Well, unless you answered "curing cancer," prepare to feel like an underachiever compared to Angela Zhang. The impressive 17-year-old from Cupertino, California just won the $100,000 Grand Prize of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology for a project called, "Design of Image-guided, Photo-thermal Controlled Drug Releasing Multifunctional Nanosystem for the Treatment of Cancer Stem Cells." Not too shabby, right?

It's even more impressive once you can understand what that title of that project actually means. Basically she created a nanoparticle that kills cancer cells. Here's what's so special about it:

Zhang said the particle she designed improves on current cancer treatments because it delivers a drug directly to tumor cells and doesn't affect healthy cells around it. The particle is also able to release a drug when activated by a laser.

A laser? Hot damn! Her creation is being heralded as a "swiss army knife of cancer treatments" because it has so many different potential uses. As is often the case with these types of innovations, it's many years away from being used in actual patients, but it's still quite an accomplishment—especially for a teenager.

Her research was spurred by the deaths of her grandfather and great-grandfather from cancer, she explained:

I asked, "Why does this happen. Why does cancer cause death? What are we doing to fix this and what can I do to help?"

And her win didn't come without dedication. Zhang has been working on this nanoparticle since 2009 and has spent more than 1,000 hours on the project. Hmm, suddenly makes all of that time I spent wandering around the mall and listening to Nirvana seem like kind of a waste.


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Wall Street Journal Article

Although far from being ready, this is still just another amazing advancement, I love how things like this pop up, pushing everything forward, says it would take 25 years before everything could get fully developed, but if you get enough grant money, It may push it forward faster, not really sure.
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aike
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States1629 Posts
December 15 2011 08:23 GMT
#2
If this is real and actually works that would be totally baller and badass and she deserves to just retire to an island of her choice ;D
Wahaha
cynical
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada589 Posts
December 15 2011 08:24 GMT
#3
I read this on reddit a few days ago. Who would've thought that a mere teenager could've possibly found the cure to cancer? Pretty amazing if you ask me.
HoodedAvatar
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada115 Posts
December 15 2011 08:25 GMT
#4
awesome the sooner we cure cancer the better!
SoKHo
Profile Joined April 2011
Korea (South)1081 Posts
December 15 2011 08:26 GMT
#5
oh wow, I definitely feel like an underachiever...
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Vestrel
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada271 Posts
December 15 2011 08:27 GMT
#6
Is she some sort of prodigy? I mean, how...

I feel like even more of an underachiever than I already do ;_;
Dhalphir
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Australia1305 Posts
December 15 2011 08:27 GMT
#7
Somewhat unfortunately, she's not likely to get rich from this. Vital cures like this never make the creator any money, because the government won't stand for you charging an amount proportional to what it cost to develop.

But, she'll be famous for life if it leads to a true cure.
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Bobbias
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada1373 Posts
December 15 2011 08:30 GMT
#8
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...
BajaBlood
Profile Joined August 2009
United States205 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-15 08:36:43
December 15 2011 08:31 GMT
#9
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.
gosuMalicE
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada676 Posts
December 15 2011 08:32 GMT
#10
On December 15 2011 17:27 Dhalphir wrote:
Somewhat unfortunately, she's not likely to get rich from this. Vital cures like this never make the creator any money, because the government won't stand for you charging an amount proportional to what it cost to develop.

But, she'll be famous for life if it leads to a true cure.

The US pharma industry disagrees with you.
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Doko
Profile Joined May 2010
Argentina1737 Posts
December 15 2011 08:33 GMT
#11
What a horrible article for such theoretical wonderful news
]343[
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
December 15 2011 08:36 GMT
#12
woo Siemens. I know the kid who got 2nd [woo RSI represent]
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B.I.G.
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
3251 Posts
December 15 2011 08:36 GMT
#13
On December 15 2011 17:27 Dhalphir wrote:
Somewhat unfortunately, she's not likely to get rich from this. Vital cures like this never make the creator any money, because the government won't stand for you charging an amount proportional to what it cost to develop.

But, she'll be famous for life if it leads to a true cure.

oh yeah because the only possible motivation she could have is mo money...
m1rk3
Profile Joined July 2011
Canada412 Posts
December 15 2011 08:37 GMT
#14
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
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No_Roo
Profile Joined February 2010
United States905 Posts
December 15 2011 08:37 GMT
#15
This sounds great, if you don't know what "nano" "particle" or "cancer" mean. If you do know what they mean the statement just becomes an absurd non sequitur...
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Cubu
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
1171 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-15 13:56:01
December 15 2011 08:37 GMT
#16
BajaBlood
Profile Joined August 2009
United States205 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-15 08:41:54
December 15 2011 08:40 GMT
#17
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


According to the WHO in 2004, cancer was responsible for 12.5% of deaths across the world, while HIV/AIDS was 4.9%. On top of this, cancer is a much more pressing problem in the US, so it's hardly surprising more focus is placed there.

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]343[
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
December 15 2011 08:41 GMT
#18
Yeah so guys, this is the Siemens Competition, which along with the Intel Science Talent Search is one of the biggest high-school research competitions in the US. These kids sometimes (with their mentor's help) actually get good results, and such people are usually national finalists, if not winners. They're actually pretty legit for high school kids; true, few would qualify as "top-notch researchers" since they're still inexperienced... but they have a pretty good chance of ending up as one.
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Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
16986 Posts
December 15 2011 08:42 GMT
#19
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


This is factually incorrect.
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wishbones
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada2600 Posts
December 15 2011 08:44 GMT
#20
instead of 2 years military service, all of us should have mandatory 1000 hours spent trying to better the planet.
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