Female students win big prizes by finding anti-aging substances

A Korean-born Canadian female student on May 8 won Canada's national scientific research award thanks to her research on anti-aging properties extracted from a breakthrough tree core.

According to AFP, Janelle Tam (16 years old) was awarded a prize of USD 5,000 in the Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge 2012 national talent search competition organized by Sanofi Pasteur Institute in Canada.

Janelle Tam discovered molecules in the core of plants, called nano - crystalline cellulose (abbreviated NCC, temporarily translating nanocrystalline cellulose ), harder and more durable than steel but capable of preventing the aging process. cells in the human body.

16-year-old female student Janelle Tam discovered an anti-aging agent in the tree core

'NCC is non-toxic, stable, soluble with water and can regenerate itself, because it is extracted from plants' , AFP quoted Tam, Waterloo Collegiate High School student, said.

Tam added that combining NCC with nanoparticles in anti-aging cosmetics on the market would create a 'super-nano' that would effectively prevent aging, improve health and help people. always young

NCC, if prepared into a drug, according to Tam, is of higher quality than either vitamin C or E because it is stable and its duration lasts longer than these two vitamins.

The Canadian National Forest Research Institute FPInnovations predicts NCC will make a profit of 250 million USD when it is launched in the next 10 years.

A paper and wood manufacturing plant built in Quebec in January 2012 can be used to produce NCC on a large scale.

Mr. Mark Lievonen, Chairman of Sanofi Pasteur Canada Vaccine, said: ' Through this scientific research competition, we believe that young people will make new advances in scientific research'.