Fifteen-year-old Jack Andraka's favourite school subject is biology. He's so good at it he's just patented a pancreatic cancer sensor. "I became interested in the disease because I knew three people who died from it," says Andraka. "So I came up with an idea to detect it early using carbon nanotubes."
The impact of the invention is huge: it is 100 times more sensitive than current diagnostic tests, 28 times faster and, at 30 cents (20p), far cheaper than its $800 equivalent. In five minutes, Andraka's test can detect pancreatic cancer at its nascent stage -- when the
survival rates are three times higher than the overall survival rate of 5.5 per cent.
By: Madhumita Venkataramanan, Edited by: Ian Steadman
Continue reading...Source: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/10/start/your-homework-detect-cancer
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