5 Good Things: A Teen Invents a Bar of Soap That Could Treat Skin Cancer
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🗓️ 24 August 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, here's your weekly dose of feel good stories. |
| 0:04.0 | You'll hear how a mother gave birth on the side of a highway in Colorado with 911 on the phone. |
| 0:11.0 | This is one of the good situations that we get to help out with truly |
| 0:14.4 | is rewarding. Plus a city that loves their street cats so much they've |
| 0:19.0 | dedicated pretty much a whole museum to them. From CNN, I'm Krista Beau, and this is five good things. |
| 0:29.2 | There's a saying that you're never too young to make a difference. One high school student in Virginia |
| 0:34.4 | is proving exactly that. |
| 0:36.2 | Hemin Bachella is just 15 years old and when he's not playing basketball |
| 0:41.8 | or participating in his school's marching band, he's developing a bar of soap that could one day treat skin cancer. |
| 0:49.0 | No big deal. |
| 0:50.0 | Pretty much, the way that it works is it uses this drug called Emmucomod and it wraps it around these lipid-based nanoparticles. |
| 0:57.6 | It's a more affordable and accessible alternative to modern day skin cancer treatment. |
| 1:02.1 | It's this invention called the skin cancer |
| 1:04.7 | treating soap or SCTS for short that's earned him the title of Time magazine's |
| 1:09.7 | 2024 Kit of the Year. Heeman was inspired to address the condition because of where he grew up. |
| 1:15.6 | I was born in Ethiopia and I saw so many people that were working really long hours under |
| 1:20.5 | the hot sun and kind of realized that damages and the consequences of |
| 1:24.8 | UV radiation for such long periods of time I was really inspired to take action. |
| 1:29.8 | In 2022 the World Health Organization estimated there were more than 1.5 million new cases of |
| 1:36.2 | skin cancer worldwide. |
| 1:38.2 | And the Skin Cancer Foundation says more people are diagnosed with skin cancer each year in the US |
| 1:43.7 | than all the other cancers combined. |
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