Fascinating... this is science-y.
http://www.geekosystem.com/17-yo-cancer-nanoparticle/
I'm skeptical as to whether or not this is true, but I do hope it is. I really do.
If it isn't true, well then, too bad. Thanks for giving us false hope.
If it is true, then pharmaceutical companies that make cancer-treatment drugs will try to suppress the discovery so that they can keep making money, or they will take the research and make it so that only the super-rich will be able to afford the treatment, leaving the poor and the middle-class to continue suffering from cancer.
The idealist in me hopes that this will be available for everyone soon, no matter their socio-economic status.
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That she discovered a way to kill cancer, or?
Same.
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this just doesnt make any sense.
now, you would have told me a internationally famous university filled with nobel prices is looking for funds to build a nanobot to kill cancer, i'd have believed you.
Well, that's kind of putting expectations on something you'd assume would be doing so... undermining the intelligence of some youth...
However, if this is in fact absolutely true, what will you say?
Here's another article:
http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/17-year-old-wins-100k-for-creating-cancer-killing-nanoparticle-2011128/
In which they link to the Siemens Foundation:
http://www.siemens-foundation.org/en/competition/2011_winners.htm#2
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i dont underestimate the inteligence of younglings.
i understate their financial credibility. hence, their achievements (just due to lack of budget, not lack of creativity).
people want money. right here right now.
at least, in the world we are living in. maybe in alpha centaury it's different.
or maybe after the end of the world...
I've not seen any legitimate news sources pick up on it, but then again, like I said initially, pharma won't like it too much... no money in a cure, which is sad really, I couldn't care less about money, if I helped save a life, that's compensation enough, but in this world today, money makes the world go around...
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you'll never get rich.
and if that was true, wich i strongly doubt, pharmas will love it. they'll just fight themselves (understand "buy each other") until there is only one, that will widely distribute the cure. for about the price of you right arm and a set of organs.
cool thing about monopole is that's pretty much forbidden, but it brings so much money nobody cares.
I'd say the $100,000 Siemans prize is pretty legitimate, and their article lists the Stanford professor who was her mentor. But I also suspect that the popular science press has overstated the case for what she's done. She's created, after a thousand hours, a potential treatment, which, if it works the way she thinks it does, will be effective for use with very expensive imaging and guidance technology to kill cancerous tumors in the early phases of their development. Noteworthy, but not a magic bullet against cancer... just another tool in the arsenal. World-wide, cancer rates are climbing, but survival rates are, as well.
Well, I'm not about money... money is a material need humans have created for themselves... it has no real value, we assigned the value to it...
True.
Agreed.
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It doesn't surprise me... here in the US, you'll have one person find a solution to something, and they'll sell it off to a company or companies for a profit, and they'll end up becoming the bottom of the barrel... not to mention, a cure for cancer undoubtedly already exists before this... but there is no profit in a cure, as malevolent as that is...
Personally, I couldn't care less about the money... the satisfaction that I may have helped fight cancer is enough for me... of course, my dad tells me everyone has their price... but I insist not me... granted, I still need to make money, but I don't make money because I want money, but because I need it.
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They are not just giving her 100K, they are probably also absolving her of any patent rights and whatnot by her having entered the concept into the contest
more like 87.15%. risk isnt worth it.
one other thing i find strange is taht siemens doesnt really cares for health...
it looks more like football to me.
buy and sell players (ideas and patents) at the right time to the right team.
chris : "Personally, I couldn't care less about the money" => we are not speaking about you here... the people that matters do. and very much. like, very very very much. they could sell their own children and grand children for the right amount of zeros behind the first number on the check.
We've seen "evidences" of alien discoveries, exoplanetary findings, conspiracy theories and whatnot being published there. Problem is, you can base a hypothesis or theory on facts so that you cannot prove it right, but neither can you prove it wrong. It's just a matter of how you look at the evidence, and how convincing it is sold.
To those who say it's impossible because it's a 17yo girl: Only because it's not even adult by pretty much any law oesn't mean it's automatically no genius. Quite a few discoveries where made by "kids" (if we go by the legal age difference).
In fact, I would argue that the cure for various illnesses is actually downright simple if you know how to approach the problem.
I doubt one needs a highly sophisticated lab equipment to make progress in research.
True, it makes things easier working with better equipment, but numerous breakthroughs can be made in one's basement as well (so to speak).
Plus, western society is looking at cures via drugs and other aspects that can probably already be found in nature.
The system we live in though is not so 'forthcoming' towards those aspects unless it can capitalize and profit from them.
The age of this individual is of little consequence... I personally detest money.
Humans in position of power have this obsessive tendency to assign 'value' to everything.
If we went about doing things through 'what is possible via technological/resource/manpower' point of view... and not 'money', then the world would likely be a much different place... and probably better from it (if of course humanity's best interests were at heart - but also the ones of the planet we currently reside on).
Also... only $100 000?
Seriously, the amount of money she won is laughably small for a concept that could in fact mean 'millions', if not 'billions'.
Though I'm betting on the bee sting (which kills every cell) targeting cancer killer cells that go into human testing within the next 2 years.
BS, the pharmaceuticals spend BILLIONS a year to create new Drugs and they have only 1 in 10 or 12 successful drugs, they then have to recoup those costs and an instant cure does not allow them to recoup the costs they spend on the 12 drug researches and trails. thus any CURES are tossed in a locker, they only release the "treatment" drugs that they can recoup the costs on. they are businesses and need to balance the books and cures don't balance the books, they'd put them out of business.