Danny Hillis: Understanding cancer through proteomics

http://www.ted.com Danny 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 ingredien...

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I admit that I'm a little bit nervous herebecause I'm going to say some radical things,about how we should think about cancer differently,to an audience that contains a lot of peoplewho know a lot more about cancer than I do.But I will also contest that I'm not as nervous as I should bebecause I'm pretty sure I'm right about this.(Laughter)And that this, in fact, will bethe way that we treat cancer in the future.In order to talk about cancer,I'm going to actually have to --let me get the big slide here.First, I'm going to try to give you a different perspective of genomics.I want to put it in perspective of the bigger pictureof all the other things that are going on --and then talk about something you haven...