Jack Andraka was a teenage boy who created revolutionary pancreatic cancer detection tool. A close friend of his family had suddenly died of pancreatic cancer and Andraka was in great sorrow. Then he started reading about the disease. Pancreatic cancer has been showing the lowest survival rate of cancer; because it was difficult to diagnosis in the early stage, and outdated methods were hardly accurate, and a high cost was a problem.
Finally, he discovered Mesothelin, a protein that responds to pancreatic cancer, by investigating over 8,000 proteins over three months, and he created a dipstick-type sensor by combining carbon nanotubes and antibodies with mesothelin. The diagnostic test he created takes less than five minutes to detect the early stages of ovarian cancer, lung cancer, and as well as pancreatic cancer, and it is inexpensive. It costs only three cents for each test.
Love brought about an interest, and interest brought about an amazing invention that saves life.