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//]]>// >By Jack M. Germain
Nov 19, 2020 9:40 AM PT
A 23-year-old biomedical engineering student with dual residence in Tarragona, Spain and Irvine, Calif. is one of two first-place winners in the 2020 James Dyson Award announced on Thursday. Her invention aims to help women around the world afford the cost of early testing for breast cancer.
Judit Giró Benet captured the $35,000 cash prize for developing The Blue Box, an at-home reusable breast cancer screening device. Her mother s diagnosis of breast cancer inspired her to find an affordable and effective screening mechanism.
Benet s experience with a dog at the University of Spain at Barcelona where she first started studying biology sparked her interest to find the biological code for detecting cancer. The dog could smell a patient s breath and detect if the patient had lung cancer.
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