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A Cheap, Accurate Cancer Sensor
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Jack Andraka, a 15-year-old student from Maryland, came up with the paper sensor.. . . The dip-stick sensor can test urine or blood for a certain protein (mesothelin)
. . . that indicates the existence of the specific cancer.
The paper strip changes conductivity,
. . . based on how much of the protein is in the blood.
It can, according to Andraka,
. . . detect the cancer even before it becomes invasive.
He was turned down by 200 researchers before
. . . Johns Hopkins University’s Dr. Anirban Maitra took a chance on him and
. . . allowed Andraka to develop the sensor in his lab.
Source: fastcoexist rawstory
