I cured diabetes once.

Some multinational drug corp will give her enough money to put her in sparkle ponies for life and then patent the nanowhatever thing, then make it cost $50,000 per six months of treatments.

/USA! USA!
//One nation, robbing each other blind, forever.

I'm pretty sure technology like that does not exist and may never exist. This is a 'fantasy' deal, like designing the perfect city or a cool car with a motor the size of a penny. It's a great thought exercise but nothing of any applicable value. I'm guessing the article is another lame attempt to get more girls into the sciences.

it begins....

There's a WSJ article linked from TFA, but what the hell, subby, let's go with Jezebel.

You only cured cancer? You're worthless! Don't even look at me.

Crudbucket: Individual winner: Angela Zhang
Individual runner-up: Brian Kim

Team winners: Cassee Cain and Ziyuan Liu
Team runners-up: Edgar Wang, Wayne Shu and Justin Yuan

Way to go, Asian kid stereotypes.

When I grew up in orange county (not florida's thank god), I started taking a lot of STEM classes like calculus ap, physics ap, etc. Once I started taking them, I noticed that I was the only white kid in the class. Everyone else was pretty much Vietnamese. Those parents didnt play around though when it came to education.

Dr. Picklebacon: I cured diabetes once.

Meh. I invented, and then cured, and then completely eradicated triabetes.

You know they're coming ...

Is there anything Mork can't do?

She got a $100,000 scholarship, effectively rendering her immune from any sort of financial hardships for the rest of her life. Now she can attend ITT tech and get that Microsoft certification and work in computers! Baby you know it's true.

Unlimited sparkle ponies!

Phil Moskowitz: Is there anything Mork can't do?

Overcome the Fonz?

Hydra: There's little excuse that this can't be readily implemented into current treatments within a few years logistically speaking. The fact that this will take two and a half decades to get through a hideous regulatory system before being offered to patients at-large is a shame.


And what about the trillions in profit for the Job Creators who paid for all of those hideous regulations? How are they supposed to afford new yachts if the system becomes a free market?

Hydra: From a WSJ article about this:

Zhang said the particle she designed improves on current cancer treatments because it delivers a drug directly to tumor cells and doesn't affect healthy cells around it. The particle is also able to release a drug when activated by a laser. The idea is still years away from being used in patients, however. Zhang says it could take 25 years between clinical trials and other steps before her research is helping patients.

And in that time, 100 million people will die from cancer.

There's little excuse that this can't be readily implemented into current treatments within a few years logistically speaking. The fact that this will take two and a half decades to get through a hideous regulatory system before being offered to patients at-large is a shame.

Hydra: From a WSJ article about this:

Zhang said the particle she designed improves on current cancer treatments because it delivers a drug directly to tumor cells and doesn't affect healthy cells around it. The particle is also able to release a drug when activated by a laser. The idea is still years away from being used in patients, however. Zhang says it could take 25 years between clinical trials and other steps before her research is helping patients.

And in that time, 100 million people will die from cancer.

There's little excuse that this can't be readily implemented into current treatments within a few years logistically speaking. The fact that this will take two and a half decades to get through a hideous regulatory system before being offered to patients at-large is a shame.

Have you seen Rise of the Planet of the Apes? Without a regulatory system we could all be ape biatches.

smedrick: Have you seen Rise of the Planet of the Apes? Without a regulatory system we could all be ape biatches.

Powder and ball conquer all.

When the apes figure out how to make and use guns, then I'll worry.

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cbackous: I remember when I was young and almost cured something, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

You're luck I was only mildly perturbed that day. And that you didn't have gray hair.

At 17, I was still learning how to talk to girls.



/although at 19, I started with my new theories in probability and dimensional analysis...but that was just a hobby.

There are probably several cancer treatments that work that are being held up for a variety of reasons...probably including that is it a marginal or questionable economic value to cure cancer. It would probably increase the life span in the Western world by a half decade in one fail swoop and reduce revenue for a wide array of healthcare-related companies. Miss you, Dad.

I don't believe that she "invented" this by herself.

Any cure for repeats?

dittybopper: smedrick: Have you seen Rise of the Planet of the Apes? Without a regulatory system we could all be ape biatches.

Powder and ball conquer all.

When the apes figure out how to make and use guns, then I'll worry.






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Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Don't all nanoparticles kill cancer?

bbcard1: There are probably several cancer treatments that work that are being held up for a variety of reasons...probably including that is it a marginal or questionable economic value to cure cancer. It would probably increase the life span in the Western world by a half decade in one fail swoop and reduce revenue for a wide array of healthcare-related companies. Miss you, Dad.

I sounds like such a conspiracy, but I tend to agree with you. Do we really want to cure cancer? More people living even longer, with fewer diseases to put them into the ground?

I dunno. Seems like it is immoral to not help human life--but also expensive, and man, we sure are trashing the place.

It seems to me that this so called "advance" is likely to minimize the profitability of cancer for many a pharmaceutical shareholder. What about decent American shareholders huh? We're supposed to help those people! Starting with stockholders! Who's helping them out, huh?!

What's wrong with coming up with a new pill or something? Maybe a slight variation on an existing medication. Or better yet, a naturally occurring substance in pill form. You know, something that does not actually cure cancer, but instead prolongs it so as to increase its profitability.

I am sorry, I did not want to have to say it, but this girl sounds unamerican.

TimonC346: bbcard1: There are probably several cancer treatments that work that are being held up for a variety of reasons...probably including that is it a marginal or questionable economic value to cure cancer. It would probably increase the life span in the Western world by a half decade in one fail swoop and reduce revenue for a wide array of healthcare-related companies. Miss you, Dad.

I sounds like such a conspiracy, but I tend to agree with you. Do we really want to cure cancer? More people living even longer, with fewer diseases to put them into the ground?

I dunno. Seems like it is immoral to not help human life--but also expensive, and man, we sure are trashing the place.

If we cured cancer, how would God test his followers?

I'm confused: did she actually invent and develop this nanoparticle and has reults showing its effectiveness against certain cancers? Or, is this just some shotty made up nanoparticle that we all wish existed and she just put in down on paper? Cause, when I was a kid, I made up all sorts of things that would change the world and I never won no damn $100K.

Crudbucket: Individual winner: Angela Zhang
Individual runner-up: Brian Kim

Team winners: Cassee Cain and Ziyuan Liu
Team runners-up: Edgar Wang, Wayne Shu and Justin Yuan

Way to go, Asian kid stereotypes.

I also love how they all have "traditional" American kid names and, preseumably, the one white kid has some weird spelling of another.

GBB: I'm confused: did she actually invent and develop this nanoparticle and has reults showing its effectiveness against certain cancers? Or, is this just some shotty made up nanoparticle that we all wish existed and she just put in down on paper? Cause, when I was a kid, I made up all sorts of things that would change the world and I never won no damn $100K.

You should have seen the hovertanks I designed.

The_Time_Master: Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Meh. Of the two pictures I could see, the one chimp had the gun canted so far to the right that he almost needs Homeboy Sights, and the other has his booger-hook on the bang switch. So either they can't hit anything, or they'll Darwin themselves with ADs.

She hasn't actually invented anything, has she? She's simply done a science fair poster rehashing the "small thing that finds cancer cells and kills them" idea which has been doing the rounds of nanotechnological fantasy since nanotechnologists started fantasising.

We can all do that. I've just invented a pill that prevents heart attacks by somehow preventing heart attacks. All it needs is someone to work out the details of what's in it. Can I have $100k, please?

GBB: I'm confused: did she actually invent and develop this nanoparticle and has reults showing its effectiveness against certain cancers? Or, is this just some shotty made up nanoparticle that we all wish existed and she just put in down on paper? Cause, when I was a kid, I made up all sorts of things that would change the world and I never won no damn $100K.

I was particularly good at designing blowback operated submachine guns when I was in junior high. By high school, though, I had moved on to designing lifting-body reentry vehicles.

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I missed that show. Thank God for RiffTrax!

Molavian: You should have seen the hovertanks I designed.

Bilko!