From enhancing vision to fighting cancer, Emory scientists are working with nanotechnology in ways that hold the promise of aiding and advancing human health.

In this latest video of the Emory Looks at Hollywood series, watch as Shuming Nie, Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering, compares the real ways researchers are trying to use nanotechnology to the fictional benefits of the "Extremis" chemical found in the Walt Disney Company movie "Iron Man 3."