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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    1 year ago

    Soap is a rinse-off product. It’ll never be as effective as leave-on ointments because the substances that actually do something will mostly be gone as soon as they’re rinsed off the skin…