What if we could precisely measure a cell at its most fundamental level?
University of Chicago scientist Peter Maurer, along with colleagues at UChicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, made a breakthrough discovery of turning a protein found in living cells into a first-of-its-kind biological quantum bit—also known as a qubit.
In this episode of the Big Brains podcast, Maurer explains how quantum systems—once thought to be too fragile for real-world use—are becoming some of the most powerful sensors ever built, and how they could detect diseases earlier and track how they evolve in our bodies:
Read the transcript of this episode.
Source: University of Chicago
