US student, 14, wins award for developing soap to treat skin cancer | Cancer
Herman Bekele, 14, from Annandale in Virginia. Photograph: Andy King/Discovery EducationHerman Bekele, 14, from Annandale in Virginia. Photograph: Andy King/Discovery EducationCancer This article is more than 2 months oldUS student, 14, wins award for developing soap to treat skin cancerThis article is more than 2 months oldHeman 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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