This 15-Year Old Is Revolutionising The Way We Test For Cancer [VIDEO]

For most 15-year olds, the last thing they want to do after school is head to a lab and work on their biology. Jack Andraka however, is not most 15-year olds and after school he heads over to Johns Hopkins University where he’s working on a test for cancer that is leaps and bounds ahead of what’s ahead now.

High school freshman Jack Andraka is a pretty big deal. This year he won first prize in the annual Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for creating a paper sensor that detects pancreatic cancer 168 times faster than current methods. Oh, and it’s 26 000 times less expensive, 400 times more sensitive and 90% accurate.

Andraka is rather nonchalant about his achievement which he dreamed up during a boring biology class.

“I became interested in early detection, did a ton of research, and came up with this idea.”

So simple. In the video above he explains exactly how his revolutionary test works.

[Source: Co.EXIST]

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