While it may not have been a typical extra-curricular activity, 17-year-old Angela Zhang's after school project may change the world. Zhang has been making headlines recently after taking home a check of $100,000 from the national Siemens science contest, and now it has been suggested that her research could lead to a potential cure for cancer.
"I created a nanoparticle that's kind of like the Swiss Army knife of cancer treatment in that it can detect cancer cells, eradicate the cancer cells and then monitor the treatment response. So the major aim of the project was to personalize cancer medicine," Zhang told ABC News.
The teen began reading doctorate level work on bio-engineering when she was a freshman. She admitted it was a "little bit overwhelming" at first, but she quickly caught the hang of it, and by junior year the rest was history.
"I'm excited to learn just everything possible," Zhang said in a video interview with CBS News. "Everything in the sciences -- biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, even computer science -- to make new innovations possible."
This has been an exciting month for teen girls and science: Earlier this week, an inspiring homeless teenager, Samantha Garvey, was honored in a prestigious science competition. After word spread about her accomplishment, she was given a home. The three amazing teen 2011 Google Science Fair winners also gave TED Talks about their incredible research, which you can watch here.
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Nano-tech is bad. It is great this young girl wants to find the cure. Her passions about it is great. But what she is creating is dangerous. Lifestyle changes are the cure. I agree with Arlene.
1 reply: Arun | Post Your Reply
The cause and cure of cancer is already known. It does not need drugs. Eradicating cancer cells without a lifestyle/diet change may not last long. Cancer cells are acid..they do not live in an alkaline body. Read "Never Fear Cancer Again" by Raymond Francis.
On Feb 19, 2012 deborah j barnes wrote:
ditto she won the prize because pharmacies see the benefit. This is the down side of the path that capitalism walks, we need to create win/win by getting the private banking system out of the money making monopoly that is at the root of our win/lose, winner take all mindset. We need to prevent this dis-ease and others from establishing themselves in our bodies and stop treating our bodies, our environment, air, water soil as dumpsters. Nano tech is a wild card that we need to treat with respect, when will we ever learn?
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