This 17-Year-Old Scientist Is Making an Acetaminophen Alternative That Is Less Damaging to the Liver

Lee’s project began with a deep dive into research. “I noticed that current solutions against acetaminophen toxicity are limited,” she explains. “Antidotal therapy, a clinical approach against toxicity, is widely inaccessible and also unreliable, and current approaches to chemically modifying acetaminophen, what my research seeks to do, are impractical since they sacrifice acetaminophen’s pain-relieving properties.”

Can't really remember what I was doing at 17, but it was definitely nothing like this.