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In A World First, A Genome Has Been Loaded Onto A Quantum Computer

The achievement marks a milestone in the quest to use quantum computing to unlock the full complexity of human genetic diversity, with implications for cancer, drug design, and personalised medicine. The breakthrough comes from a collaboration led by the University of Oxford and the Wellcome Sanger Institute, whose researchers encoded the 1,700 base-pair genome of the hepatitis D virus into a quantum state that can be stored and processed using a... [6792 chars]

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