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Heman Bekele was inspired by Ethiopian workers laboring under the sun, and wanted to help ‘as many people as possible’

A middle-school teen has been named “America’s top young scientist” after developing a bar of soap that could be useful in the treatment of melanoma, a skin cancer that is diagnosed in about 100,000 people in the US each year and kills approximately 8,000.

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[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

This is a response better than I deserve. Well done and totally agree with all of your points, especially the being wrong bit.

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