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17-Year-Old Wins $100K For Creating Cancer Killing Nanoparticle

An anonymous reader writes "17-year-old Angeloa Zhang was recently awarded the $100,000 Grand Prize in the Individual category of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology. Her project was entitled 'Design of Image-guided, Photo-thermal Controlled Drug Releasing Multifunctional Nanosystem for the Treatment of Cancer Stem Cells.' The creation is the so-called 'Swiss army knife of cancer treatment,' which allows a nanoparticle to be delivered to a tumor where it proceeds to kills cancer stem cells."

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  1. Re:Grrr! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why must you spam these stupid stories? You can't get any catharsis from them, nobody bothers reading them, we all just skip over them, and they're such a load of crap that they're worthless anyway.

  2. The 100k was a ripoff by WaterDamage · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The big pharma company(ies) will make billions from her discovery wile giving her a mere $100k! If I were her, I would have demanded indefinite royalties or 100 million dollars.

  3. Re:Lousy t-shirt by Deliveranc3 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They don't give you money if they don't know what you'll do with it.

    She needs a hobby: Burying diamonds.

    Oh... she could make fake dinosaurs and put them places! The Christians would LOVE IT!

  4. Re:Grrr! by Joce640k · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I didn't read it because I knew it was crap.

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