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  • High School Freshman Confounds Researchers, Invents New Pancreatic Cancer Test

    05/28/2012 6:20:23 PM PDT · by neverdem · 24 replies
    DailyTech ^ | May 25, 2012 | Jason Mick
    15-year-old nabs $100,000 top prize in Intel-sponsored competition; his "dipstick" test is 90 percent accurate Jack Andraka. Andraka. "Keep that last name in mind. You're going to read about him a lot in the years to come. What I tell my lab is, 'Think of Thomas Edison and the light bulb.' This kid is the Edison of our times. There are going to be a lot of light bulbs coming from him." Those are bold words, bolder still given that their source is one of the top medical researchers in the nation. But Dr. Anirban Maitra, a pathology professor at...