Angela Zhang, is a seventeen year old girl with big ideas. Her ideas are so big that she might change the world of medicine if all goes well because Angela feels she has found a cure for cancer.
Child of Chinese immigrants to the USA Angela began researching a cure for cancer in her spare time. She started reading research by top scientists and faced the challenge of decoding their theories which she did then formulate her own.
Her research was considered to be top-notch by some of the biggest universities in the USA. She won $100,000 for her effort. Reports say that Angela promptly rushed out and bought herself several pairs of shoes like any typical teenager girl but that where it ends. She appears to be unto something huge. Imagine if her idea turns out to be the cure the impact she would have made on mankind's march to conquer the big C which so far no one has been able to do even though the millions collected for cancer research we are still far away from a cure.
Angela's idea was to mix cancer medicine in a polymer that would attach to nanoparticles -- nanoparticles that would then attach to cancer cells and show up on an MRI. so doctors could see exactly where the tumors are. Then she thought shat if you aimed an infrared light at the tumors to melt the polymer and release the medicine, thus killing the cancer cells while leaving healthy cells completely unharmed
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/15/angela-zhang-high-school-_n_1207177.html
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