Out of the Minds of Babes

Sixteen-year-old Jack Andraka has developed a quick, simple, and inexpensive test for pancreatic cancer, one that can also test for lung and ovarian cancer and whose method can be adapted for any number of other tests. Like so many inventors and innovators, he persevered despite the voiced doubts of almost every professor with whom he spoke along the way (story, video): http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130701-perfecting-early-cancer-detection