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Calif. HS student devises possible cancer cure
CBS News ^ | 1/13/12 | Steve Hartman .

Posted on 01/13/2012 5:23:41 PM PST by Brandonmark

If you ever worry about the future of America, there is no need: it is in good hands. A high school student named Angela is proof of that. We think you'll agree she is nothing short of amazing. CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman met her on the road.

Born to Chinese immigrants, 17-year-old Angela Zhang of Cupertino, California is a typical American teenager. She's really into shoes and is just learning how to drive.

But there is one thing that separates her from every other student at Monta Vista High School, something she first shared with her chemistry teacher, Kavita Gupta.

It's a research paper Angela wrote in her spare time -- and it is advanced, to say the least. Gupta says all she knows is its recipe -- for curing cancer.

"Cure for cancer -- a high school student," said Gupta. "It's just so mind-boggling. I just cannot even begin to comprehend how she even thought about it or did this."

"I just thought, 'Why not?' 'What is there to lose?'" said Angela.

When she was a freshman, she started reading doctorate level papers on bio-engineering.

"At first it was a little bit overwhelming," said Angela, "but I found that it almost became like a puzzle, being able to decode something."

By sophomore year she'd talked her way into the lab at Stanford, and by junior year was doing her own research.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cancer; cancercure
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1 posted on 01/13/2012 5:23:45 PM PST by Brandonmark
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To: Brandonmark

I wonder how many dollars are wrapped up in non profit groups in theory raising money to eliminate cancer? Pharmaceuticals? Cancer hospitals?

Awesome if it pans out.


2 posted on 01/13/2012 5:29:50 PM PST by listenhillary (Look your representatives in the eye and ask if they intend to pay off the debt. They will look away)
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To: Brandonmark

Angela Zhang - will you marry me?

There! I said it first!

What a wonderful young woman!


3 posted on 01/13/2012 5:32:53 PM PST by spankalib (The Marx-in-the-Parks crowd is a basement skunkworks operation of the AFL-CIO)
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To: Brandonmark

The cure for cancer is just around the corner.
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The biggest damn corner I’ve ever seen.


4 posted on 01/13/2012 5:32:53 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati)
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To: listenhillary

It sure will be awesome if she is able to do what she has set out to do!

At 17, I’m sure I wasn’t anything but a cut up in school............


5 posted on 01/13/2012 5:34:02 PM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: Brandonmark

This can’t be. She attends one of those crappy public high schools and we are told they are all worthless. /S


6 posted on 01/13/2012 5:36:24 PM PST by Netizen (Path to citizenship = Scamnesty. If you give it away, more will come. Who's pilfering your wallet?)
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To: Brandonmark

Amazing


7 posted on 01/13/2012 5:37:39 PM PST by therightliveswithus
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To: Brandonmark

Now put her to work on the economy.


8 posted on 01/13/2012 5:40:00 PM PST by muleskinner
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To: Brandonmark
Holy smoke.

Best of luck to her in everything she does.

9 posted on 01/13/2012 5:41:58 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: Brandonmark
Hopefully Stanford (or some other school above the city college level) will give her a pass and not admit a couple of dozen "protected minorities" before considering her application for admission.

(Or, maybe she can go out of state.)

10 posted on 01/13/2012 5:43:30 PM PST by norton
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To: Brandonmark

Way to go Angela. Prayers that you are spot on with your research.


11 posted on 01/13/2012 5:45:46 PM PST by marty60
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To: Netizen
Monta Vista in Cupertino CA. You can see that she not only attends a public high school she has been confined to the Asian-Origin ghetto.

Apparently ALL their graduates will go on to college. Here are the OUT OF STATE SCHOOLS the class of 2011 went to:

Amherst College Arizona State University Boston College Carnegie Mellon Cornell Dartmouth Drexel Duke Harvard Indiana University Johns Hopkins MIT NYU Northwestern Princeton Purdue Rhode Island School of Design Rice Tufts University of Arizona University of Chicago University of Denver University of Michigan University of Pennsylvania University of Washington Yale

Remember this list when someone tells you how great it is their kid is going to Brown, University of Virginia, North Carolina (unless he can play basketball), Texas, Texas A&M, etc.

12 posted on 01/13/2012 5:46:30 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Brandonmark

Another “Invention” that makes you go, well why didn’t anyone try that before?

Seems quite simple when it’s explained.


13 posted on 01/13/2012 5:47:02 PM PST by Loyal Sedition
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To: Netizen

LOL, the government schools had nothing to do with her excellence, that’s for sure.


14 posted on 01/13/2012 5:47:25 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: muleskinner
Now put her to work on the economy.

Hell! Many great minds have that figured out. The problem is all the powerful, vested interests who want to keep things just the way they are.

15 posted on 01/13/2012 5:48:30 PM PST by sinanju (ua)
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To: Brandonmark
Angela's idea was to mix cancer medicine in a polymer that would attach to nanoparticles -- nanoparticles that would then attach to cancer cells and show up on an MRI. so doctors could see exactly where the tumors are. Then she thought shat if you aimed an infrared light at the tumors to melt the polymer and release the medicine, thus killing the cancer cells while leaving healthy cells completely unharmed.

Pretty anazing stuff!

16 posted on 01/13/2012 5:49:14 PM PST by Brandonmark (2012: Our Hope IS Change!)
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To: Brandonmark; All

When (hopefully this is it) a cure “gets out”, i.e., can’t be smothered by the “industry”, it will pop a large part of the healthcare bubble.

Which is why it is extremely foolish to have 25% of GDP be comprised of healthcare.


17 posted on 01/13/2012 5:50:23 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves.)
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To: muleskinner
Now put her to work on the economy.

Oh, by curing cancer she's done wonders for social security.

18 posted on 01/13/2012 5:50:45 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: PieterCasparzen

Oh, sorry, 17%. Still high, should be somewhere around 10%, IMHO.


19 posted on 01/13/2012 5:51:39 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves.)
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To: Brandonmark; listenhillary; spankalib; Jeff Chandler; basil; Netizen; therightliveswithus; ...

This has been the dream of decades; how to find a way to deliver those nasty chemotherapy poisons exclusively to the tumors on the cellular level. So it has finally been cracked.

Now the problem is all those Lefty Luddites for whom “nanoparticles” are the new DDT.


20 posted on 01/13/2012 5:53:32 PM PST by sinanju (ua)
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