Reblogged from TrueActivist.com
Jack is a fifteen year old freshman in high school. He developed a paper sensor that could detect cancer in five minutes for as little as 3 cents. After being turned down by 199 different labs, his persistence paid off and Jack was able to conduct his research at John Hopkins University.
This research could change the face of cancer and promote early detection. He has been selected as the Intel 2012 ISEF winner and has won awards at multiple national and international math competitions. Jack is on the national junior whitewater kayaking team and enjoys playing with his dog and folding origami.
Jack’s method is 168 times faster, 26000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive than the methods employed by the for-profit medical establishment. Jack's method has a 90% success rate, and at $0.03 per test it's certainly not cost prohibitive to get retested.
As Jack mentions in his video, the cancers his test works on often kill people because they aren't detected early on. Many people avoid tests for these cancers due to the prohibitive cost of establishment tests: $~$800.
Here we have a very stark example of how for-profit medicine kills. Its also showcases the difficulty researchers have in finding lab space for non-profit-driven research.