[JRandomFreeper]

I expect to see more of this as time goes on.

/johnny

[commonguymd]

Great story and possibly great news on the cancer front.

[Jonty30]

Crowd sourcing is supposed to lead to a lot of various kinds of breakthroughs.

[upchuck]

This could really hurt Big Pharma. Thus I suspect they will buy him off and we’ll never see this again.

[Vince Ferrer]

There are a couple of exiting developments in search technologies.

Watson turns medic: Supercomputer to diagnose disease

IBM hasn't described Watson in too much detail as far as I know, but it is a big database/search engine/AI program that reads text and can infer connections.

Northwestern Scientists Create 'Chemical Brain'

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I hope he hires a bodyguard. I suspect he’s made some Very Important People very angry. Big Pharma, anyone?

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I could have sworn I read the exact same story about a year ago, involving a young girl.

[CORedneck]

I am sure he is on The One’s $h!tlist !

[visualops]

This is very interesting:
Pathology professor Dr. Anirban Maitra was the only doctor out of 200 that Andraka had contacted to give the eager young student lab access at Johns Hopkins to conduct his science fair project.
199 other doctors (I assume research types) unwilling to give a young thinking person the time of day.

[Red Badger]

Not surprsng, really.
The Internet is essentially the repository of the sum total of all human knowledge.
It just takes time to wade through it all.......

[lonevoice]

Amazing!

[peggybac]

My mom died 3 months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and, because of the daily fear I have of also succumbing from it, I sure hope this kid’s testing is approved. Or, any kind of preemptive testing, trials, breakthroughs. I thought after Patrick Swayze died from it, it would become the cancer du jour with tons of money coming in, but, alas, it wasn’t.

[jmaroneps37]

THIS comes from the America Obama doesn't know doesn't understand AND DOESN'T CARE ABOUT!