{"id":217354,"date":"2025-07-08T02:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/quantum-enhancement-discovery-could-improve-medical-technologies"},"modified":"2025-07-08T02:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:17:11","slug":"quantum-enhancement-discovery-could-improve-medical-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/quantum-enhancement-discovery-could-improve-medical-technologies","title":{"rendered":"Quantum enhancement discovery could improve medical technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-enhancement-discovery-could-improve-medical-technologies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Technologies such as biomedical imaging and spectroscopy could be enhanced by a discovery in research that involved several institutions, including the University of Glasgow. Scientists have found that two-photon processes, which have applications in the study of Alzheimer\u2019s disease and other nervous system disorders, can be strengthened by quantum light at far higher levels than previously thought possible.<\/p>\n<p>The processes normally require high-intensity light but this can cause samples to be damaged or bleached.<\/p>\n<p>It was suggested many years ago\u2014and has since been demonstrated\u2014that entangled <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photon+pairs\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photon pairs<\/a> could overcome this limitation. However, it has been widely believed that this quantum enhancement only survives for very faint light, raising doubts about the usefulness of the approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technologies such as biomedical imaging and spectroscopy could be enhanced by a discovery in research that involved several institutions, including the University of Glasgow. Scientists have found that two-photon processes, which have applications in the study of Alzheimer\u2019s disease and other nervous system disorders, can be strengthened by quantum light at far higher levels than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}