虽然这可能并非一项典型的课外活动，但17岁的安琪拉·张（Angela Zhang）的课后项目或许会改变世界。张最近频频登上新闻头条，因为她从西门子全国科学竞赛中获得了10万美元的奖金。如今，有消息称她的研究可能有助于找到治愈癌症的方法。
张教授告诉美国广播公司新闻网：“我研发了一种纳米颗粒，它就像癌症治疗界的瑞士军刀，可以检测癌细胞、清除癌细胞，然后监测治疗反应。因此，该项目的主要目标是实现癌症治疗的个性化。 ”
这位少女在大一时就开始阅读生物工程方面的博士论文。 她承认一开始“有点不知所措”，但她很快就掌握了要领，到了大三，剩下的故事就众所周知了。
张在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻频道视频采访时表示：“我非常渴望学习一切可能的知识。 科学领域的方方面面——生物学、化学、物理学、工程学，甚至计算机科学——都让我有机会进行新的创新。”
对于青少年女孩和科学来说，这个月可谓激动人心：本周早些时候，一位鼓舞人心的无家可归少女萨曼莎·加维在一项著名的科学竞赛中荣获殊荣。她的成就广为人知后，她获得了一个家。三位杰出的2011年谷歌科学奖青少年获奖者也发表了关于她们卓越研究的TED演讲， 您可以在这里观看。
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ditto she won the prize because pharmacies see the benefit. This is the down side of the path that capitalism walks, we need to create win/win by getting the private banking system out of the money making monopoly that is at the root of our win/lose, winner take all mindset. We need to prevent this dis-ease and others from establishing themselves in our bodies and stop treating our bodies, our environment, air, water soil as dumpsters. Nano tech is a wild card that we need to treat with respect, when will we ever learn?
Nano-tech is bad. It is great this young girl wants to find the cure. Her passions about it is great. But what she is creating is dangerous. Lifestyle changes are the cure. I agree with Arlene.
The cause and cure of cancer is already known. It does not need drugs. Eradicating cancer cells without a lifestyle/diet change may not last long. Cancer cells are acid..they do not live in an alkaline body. Read "Never Fear Cancer Again" by Raymond Francis.