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

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.

  • wandtpag@kbin.social
    74·
    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…