7th-grader's science project finds cancer-fighting chemicals in green tea

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Stephen Litt has been conducting science experiments since he was in first grade. Every year, the projects became more and more complicated — until finally, as a 7th grader, he came across something that gained national attention.

The 12-year-old boy from Marietta, Georgia, discovered evidence that chemicals in green tea may have cancer-fighting potential.

For this year’s science fair project, he tested epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), an antioxidant in green tea, to determine whether it could prevent breast cancer tumors in planaria, a type of flatworms. 

The research, which was part of his award-winning project for the Georgia Science and Engineering Fair, earned the boy praise from scientists across the country. He was even invited to go on a private tour of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University while on spring break in Boston two weeks ago.

“It’s not a cure for cancer,” his father, Lesley Litt, who trained as a chemist and assisted with the project, told CBS News. “What he found is a way to prevent cancer in these worms from those specific carcinogens. Their DNA is not the same as humans, but a professor at Tufts and a few others, they want to know what’s going on — they want to help.”

[pokerplayer]

When I was that age my science fair project was what popcorn left the least amount of kernels once popping was done  

Good for him, These are the kids that hold our future in their hands.

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[davis411]

On ‎4‎/‎19‎/‎2017 at 2:44 AM, pokerplayer said:

When I was that age my science fair project was what popcorn left the least amount of kernels once popping was done  

Good for him, These are the kids that hold our future in their hands.

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