{"id":34237,"date":"2017-02-06T18:24:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T02:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/quantum-computing-will-revolutionize-cancer-research-says-d-wave-co-founder-farris"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:44:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:44:35","slug":"quantum-computing-will-revolutionize-cancer-research-says-d-wave-co-founder-farris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/quantum-computing-will-revolutionize-cancer-research-says-d-wave-co-founder-farris","title":{"rendered":"Quantum computing will revolutionize cancer research, says D-Wave co-founder Farris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cTwxCsN9kKk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It will and I know some folks are also applying Quantum properties to their bio-research to look at ways to tackle certain brain cancers via (you guessed it) Quantum Biology.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Quantum computing and machine learning will impact most all parts of human life, but one of the first and most compelling benefits we will see is in the field of cancer research, says one expert.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/0and1media.com\/about\/\">Zero and One Media\u2019s<\/a> Katya Pinkowski sat down with D-Wave co-founder Haig Farris recently to talk about the world-leading, Burnaby-based quantum computing company as it creeps closer to commercialization. Asked what areas of life quantum computing would impact, Farris said there really won\u2019t be part of society that won\u2019t be touched by it, but that one of the most noticeable out of the gate will be cancer research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it\u2019s brain research or cancer research, understanding and being able to model and learn from various ways you might design a drug to address a particular cancer this is going to be probably the most important application that you and I will benefit and notice,\u201d said Farris.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cantechletter.com\/2017\/02\/quantum-computing-will-revolutionize-cancer-research-says-d-wave-co-founder-farris\/\">http:\/\/www.cantechletter.com\/2017\/02\/quantum-computing-will-...er-farris\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will and I know some folks are also applying Quantum properties to their bio-research to look at ways to tackle certain brain cancers via (you guessed it) Quantum Biology. Quantum computing and machine learning will impact most all parts of human life, but one of the first and most compelling benefits we will see [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34237","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58840,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34237\/revisions\/58840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}