A new superweapon in the fight against cancer, Paula Hammond

Cancer is a very clever, adaptable disease. To defeat it, says medical researcher and educator Paula Hammond, we need a new and powerful mode of attack. With her colleagues at MIT, Hammond engineered a nanoparticle onehundredth the size of a human hair that can treat the most aggressive, drugresistant cancers. Learn more about this molecular superweapon and join Hammond s quest to fight a disease that affects us all. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Confer