Anika Chebrolu, 14, was named the winner of the 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge, a competition for middle school scientists. The eighth-grader's project won her a $25,000 cash prize.
14-year-old girl works on potential cure for coronavirus
"I isolated a lead compound from a database of almost 698 million molecules," said Chebrolu.
That discovery, which she hopes will lead to a new weapon against COVID-19, began two years ago while Chebrolu was researching the Spanish flu pandemic.
"I just wanted to help the world and let children know that they can do whatever they want to accomplish," she said.
Female jaguar injured in the Pantanal fires recovers near Brasilia Amanaci, a female jaguar, is receiving stem cell treatments by the veterinary team of the Nex Institute in Brazil, after she suffered third-degree burns in the fires that ravaged the Brazilian Pantanal.
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