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PostSubject: 17-year-old girl's cancer breakthrough   17-year-old girl's cancer breakthrough Icon_minitimeMon Dec 12, 2011 4:42 am
A high school student from California has won a $US100,000 scholarship for research that created a tiny particle she likened to a "Swiss army knife of cancer treatments" because of its precision in targeting cancer tumours.

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Angela Zhang, 17, of Cupertino, California, won top individual honours at the Siemens Foundation's annual high school science competition, which announced winners in Washington last week. Top team honours went to a pair of students from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for their research using gaming technology to analyse the motion involved in walking. Cassee Cain and Ziyuan Liu, both 17, will share a $US100,000 scholarship.

Six individuals and six teams were competing for the awards, which are in their 13th year. Zhang, the only female individual finalist, said her research was in part motivated by her family. Her great grandfather had liver cancer and her grandfather died of lung cancer when she was in seventh grade.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/17yearold-girls-cancer-breakthrough-20111212-1oq7v.html#ixzz1gJOpdJii
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