Heman Bekele was inspired by Ethiopian workers laboring under the sun, and wanted to help ‘as many people as possible’

A middle-school teen has been named “America’s top young scientist” after developing a bar of soap that could be useful in the treatment of melanoma, a skin cancer that is diagnosed in about 100,000 people in the US each year and kills approximately 8,000.

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    8 months ago

    To stave off cancer caused by their other products

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      8 months ago

      Wait when did J&J cause skin cancer? I’ve only known of the asbestos baby powder.

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        8 months ago

        Breast cancer, skin cancer…Are we gonna split squamous cells here