Lyme disease often goes undetected when it's most treatable. These teens are working to change that.

A team of public high school students in Georgia faced some skepticism when they decided to try to come up with a way to detect Lyme disease earlier.

But the students at Lambert High School in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, pushed ahead with their idea, using the gene editing technology CRISPR, and took it to the iGEM competition , a sort of science Olympics, in Paris. iGEM stands for International Genetically Engineered Machine and the annual competition has been around for about 20 years.

Now, scientists say the students' groundbreaking work could be a major breakthrough if further testing pans out.

"We're doing something in our high school lab that could potentially have a huge impact for, like, millions of people. It's not like we're just saying, like, 'Oh. I'm just doing this little