High School Genius
On May12th 2014, A 15 year old student found a new cheaper
way to test whether a person HIV. Nicole Ticea is the 15 year old grade 10
student who goes to York house School in Vancouver. She has devolved a way for
users to place a drop of blood on a chip and receiver near instantaneous
results of whether you are infected with HIV or not. It is said to be as simple as having a
pregnancy test. The way to track HIV is to amplify the virus which will show a
negative result on an antibody test.
Doing this made her win first place in the BC 2014 Regional Sanofi
BioGENEius Challange. In places where HIV thrives, it is difficult to test for
HIV in labs, but this could lead to a major breakthrough.
This
shows that students my age are able to make big breakthroughs in sciences. A
girl who is three years younger than me is able to discover a way to detect
HIV. If these tests are true, there should be more money invested into it. This
has the potential to save many lives. It is amazing that
someone who is a few years younger than me is able to do this. It just shows no
matter what age you are, you can accomplish anything. Hopefully this will casue
less people to have HIV which can lead to happier lives.
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