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He applied techniques that had been used on breast cancer (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21836232 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21836232) and prostate
by michaelhoffman 14y ago
He applied techniques that had been used on breast cancer (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21836232 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21836232) and prostate cancer (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19481922 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19481922) to pancreatic cancer. The implementation is more impressive than what the vast majority of teenagers or even undergraduates are capable of, but the idea certainly isn't novel.
- polyfractal 14y agoSure sure, I agree with your points. But usually these ISEF winners are even further removed from "novel" ideas - they are literally placed into projects that grads/post-docs are already working on. Effectively, they become another pair of hands on a project that is well outside their intellectual input. It looks like this guy synthesized his own idea rather than piggybacking off the work of another, partially completed project (which is usually the norm for ISEF winners)
- michaelhoffman 14y agoAgreed, that is what it looks like.