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Middle-schooler accidentally finds groundbreaking new anti-cancer compound in goose poop

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Camarria Williams , a middle-schooler from Chicago , accidentally finds groundbreaking new anti-cancer compound in goose poop.

Researchers showed in a lab setting that the new compound found in the goose feces was able to inhibit growth of human cancer cells.

The findings — a novel compound AND a promising cancer treatment — were substantial enough to be published in the journal ACS Omega .

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66

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English

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51

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