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  • 14-year-old named America’s Top Young Scientist for creating soap that treats skin cancer

    10/20/2023 5:27:52 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 67 replies
    WCAX-TV3 ^ | Oct. 19, 2023 at 3:06 PM CDT | By Emily Van de Riet
    FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (Gray News) – A 14-year-old from Virginia was crowned America’s Top Young Scientist for inventing a soap that treats skin cancer. According to a news release, Heman Bekele, a ninth grader at W.T. Woodson High School in Annandale, won the 2023 3M Young Scientist Challenge last week. Heman developed Melanoma Treating Soap, a compound-based bar of soap designed to treat skin cancer. Over the next five years, he hopes to refine his innovation and create a nonprofit organization that will distribute this low-cost solution to communities in need. The final product came out to a shockingly cheap...