A Bright Future |
17 year old Nithin was this years winner of the Intel School Science Prize. Seven former winners have gone on to Win the Nobel Peace Prize. His project was to map the molecular pathways in a single cell to seen their roll in Breast Cancer. Nithin research has the potential to lead to better targeted and thus less toxic treatments for Breast Cancer patients.
He explains, "this is like looking for the elcassor pedal and trying to work out how to put the breaks on in cancer cells! The trying to work out how to let one foot come up slowly, while putting the other one down."