Jack Andraka catapulted from being a typical US teenager unaware of the pancreas to one with a cheap way to detect cancer in the organ before it turns deadly. "Through the internet, anything is possible," Andraka said while telling the story of his screening breakthrough at a TED conference in Long Beach, California. "Undeterred due to my teenage optimism, I went online to a teenager's two best friends: Google and Wikipedia," Andraka said.

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