Danny Hillis: Understanding cancer through proteomics

February 24 2011, 1:42pm

Danny Hillis: Understanding cancer through proteomicsSource: on.ted.comDanny Hills makes a case for the next frontier of cancer research: proteomics, the study of proteins in the body. As Hillis explains it, genomics shows us a list of the body's ingredients -- while proteomics shows us what those ingredients produce. Understanding these processes could help tell us wh...