{"id":232686,"date":"2025-09-17T01:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/232686\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T01:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:40:14","slug":"university-of-saskatchewan-using-quantum-computers-to-prevent-pandemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/232686\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Saskatchewan using quantum computers to prevent pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It has been a little over a year since researchers at the University of Saskatchewan<\/a> gained access to one of the world\u2019s most powerful machines, the quantum computer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Now, the Centre for Quantum Topology and Its Applications (quanTA) team is partnering up with the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO), along with several other researchers, to help speed up vaccine<\/a> development.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of places in the world are working on just getting quantum computers up and running and saying at some point we will be able to do something good with it\u2026 we\u2019re not waiting,\u201d said the USask director for the quanTA centre, Steven Rayan.<\/p>\n

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The researchers will identify pathogens of concern and use the quantum computer to make a digital twin of the virus or bacteria. Then, they will use the computer to test multiple vaccine scenarios and effects one may find in nature to see how it works. This, in turn, will be faster than trying to replicate these tests in a lab.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is kind of like you have a boy at the top of the hill on a sled, and he goes down and you see where the sled goes right? There are different places he could end up but that\u2019s the path nature picked. So, this is a form of computing where we let nature do the work for us,\u201d explained Steven.<\/p>\n

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