Meet the Teen Who Wants to Kill Cancer

April 2 -- 18-year old Scientist and Author Jack Andraka discusses the new test he invented to detect pancreatic, lung and ovarian cancers. He speaks to Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox on “Taking Stock.”

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[supernewuser]

Excellent work, Jack! I'll pickup his book for sure. This is the kind of ingenuity we need.

[Metacognition]

Whether this works out or not I wish the kid good luck. He seems ambitious.

[FSXNOOB]

Let's hope he makes something out of this.. in the name of humankind

[carloscastillo]

He better be careful the cancer industry could lose billions

[susanwright]

oh dear  the government's not going to like this good luck

[Hassanov.a]

How did he get hold of those carbon nanotubes?

[floridaboy]

pretty sure he was fkn an older researcher that gave him his theory. Just my theory on this lol