Where are you getting this information? There may have been inspiration but I highly doubt that the exact same method was in use before.

APOLOGIES FOR THE LONG COMMENT
Basically, cells with any of these three kinds of cancer overproduce a chemical called mesothelin. This is called a biomarker, and if it is found in large quantities, can be a reliable sign that the patient has one of these three kinds of cancer. What Jack did is coat a piece if paper with human-specific antiobodes that react with the mesothelin. He also coated the paper with single walled nanotubes, a type of structure made of carbon atoms, making the paper conductive. When the mesothelin in the patient's blood comes into contact with the antibodes, they absord the chemical and swell, spreading the nanotubes apart, and therefore creating a charge. If the charge is high enough, this tells the doctor that the patient'a blood mesothelin content is too high, and is a sign of either pancreatic, ovarian, or lung cancer. Hope this helped!!

These facts are correct. His method can, in fact, diagnose cancer, but only pancreatic, lung, and ovarian. Even then, its only able to detect these cancers at the very early stages, and becomes useless afterwards. Though this is not as great as it sounds in the post, I have no intention of diminishing the importance of this invention and the pure awesomeness of the kid that invented it.

awesome! :)

haha I've been attempting to decipher this and it just hurts...

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