BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT, WELL, KEEP US POSTED. A YOUNG SCIENTIST FROM RALSTON HIGH SCHOOL IS BEING PRAISED AFTER HE DISCOVERED A NEW VIRUS. KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S DAVON TAYLOR REPORTS ON ANY GIVEN DAY, YOU CAN FIND SENIOR SEAN MATTHEWS BEING A NORMAL SCIENCE KID. IN AND OUT OF THE LAB. WE HAD A LONG WEEKEND TO FIGURE OUT WHERE OUR SOIL SAMPLES WERE SUPPOSED TO COME FROM, AND SO I REALLY BADLY WANTED, UM, OUR SOIL SAMPLE THAT WE DISCOVERED THE VIRUS IN TO BE FROM NEBRASKA WILDLIFE REHAB. UM, BUT LIKE, WE HAD A, LIKE, PROBLEM BECAUSE THE SOIL WAS SO DRY. THIS WAS PART OF HIS INTERNATIONAL UNDERGRAD PROJECT TO RESEARCH. BUT DESPITE THE CHALLENGES THAT AROSE, HE TRUSTS HIS GUT. SO WE HAD TO SET IT OVERNIGHT TO GROW ON A PLATE AND SO THE NEXT DAY, UM, ALL OF OUR TRAYS WERE COVERED IN MOLD, SO WE HAD TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN. SEVERAL ATTEMPTS LATER, SOMETHING ODD CAUGHT SEAN OFF GUARD. THERE WAS JUST ONE TINY, SMALL DOT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PLATE, AND I WROTE IN, LIKE ALL CAPS IN MY NOTEBOOK, WE HAVE A VIRUS. AND LIKE I DREW LOTS OF PICTURES OF IT. LIKE LOTS OF DIAGRAMS. HE DISCOVERED THIS THROUGH BEING A PART OF THE SCIENCE EDUCATION ALLIANCE. PHAGE HUNTER ADVANCING GENOMICS AND EVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE PROGRAM. THE VIRUS SEAN CAUSE CAB TRIPS HAS NO IMPACT ON HUMANS. IN FACT, IT MAY BE BENEFICIAL. IT’S VERY IRONIC BECAUSE IT DOES NOT POSE ANY THREAT TO HUMANS AT ALL. UM, AND IF ANYTHING, IT HELPS HUMANS BECAUSE THERE’S LOTS OF THERAPIES CALLED PHAGE THERAPIES WHERE THEY HELP, UM, TREAT HUMANS FROM BACTERIOPHAGES OR BACTERIA. BUT FOR SEAN, HE SAYS THIS OPENS A DOOR OF MANY POSSIBILITIES. THIS IS LIKE MY LITTLE STEPPING STONE TO, LIKE, GET FURTHER DISCOVERIES. SO IT’S LIKE HUGE FOR ME. AND THEN LIKE, I SEE IT AS LIKE MY CHILD GETTING ONE STEP CLOSER TO H