While most teenage boys are busy playing video games and skateboarding, one 15-year-old Maryland boy has been busy creating a new way to test for pancreatic cancer.
Jack Andraka was awarded the $75,000 first prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his dipstick sensor, which can test blood and/or urine to see if someone might have early-stage pancreatic cancer.
His patent-pending test has proved to be over 90 percent accurate, and 28 times cheaper and 1,000 times more sensitive than existing tests for the disease.
Jack received the Gordon E. Moore Award, named in honor of the Intel co-founder and retired chairman and CEO.
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