Pharma & Biotech - Quantum Technology, Quantum Computing, Quantum Security Articles
October 9, 2023
Quantum Use Cases in Pharma & Biotech
Quantum computing is poised to become a catalytic force in the global pharmaceuticals and biotechnology industries. Its ability to tackle problems of staggering complexity – whether simulating the quantum behavior of drug molecules, analyzing massive genomic datasets for personalized medicine, or optimizing the myriad decisions in R&D and supply chains – offers a new computational paradigm for an innovation-hungry sector. We have seen that even in its nascent state, quantum technology is already making waves: early experiments have accelerated molecular discovery, quantum sensors are breaking new ground in biomedical imaging, and companies big and small are gearing up through partnerships and pilot projects to be part of this coming revolution ...
Google Ran Magic State Cultivation on Willow and Cut Magic-State Error 40-Fold. The Test Covered Only the Protocol’s Smallest Version.
Google put an upper bound of one to two in 10,000 on the error of T states cultivated on Willow. The result supports one assumption in Google's sub-million-qubit RSA-2048 estimate and leaves the rest of a factory untested ...
Researchers Reviewed 53 Quantum Computing Studies in Bioinformatics. Two-Thirds Never Used a Quantum Computer.
A systematic review of 53 peer-reviewed studies applying quantum computing to genomics, protein structure and biomedical data found most ran on classical computers, used reduced datasets and seldom published both code and data ...