Guenot, M. (2025). Can quantum computing crack the biggest challenges in health? Nature Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03369-w
Great story by @Marianne_Guenot, providing good & *not* good news about QC for biomedicine.
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The potential power of quantum computers in cracking problems that classical computers cannot is not all good news, says Mark Gerstein, a professor of biomedical informatics at Yale University who recently co-authored a review about quantum computing and health for Nature Methods3.
Experts predict that quantum computers could become fiendishly good at breaking through current encryption algorithms, says Gerstein, which could pose a problem for the privacy of confidential patient data. “There’s a huge push right now to get post-quantum cryptography to work,” he says.
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The idea, then, is not for quantum computers to replace classical computers, says Gerstein. Instead, they should be considered as adding a node to a computing chain, as each can contribute different strengths to solve a problem. “The art here is figuring out which bit of this big calculation you can quantize,” says Gerstein.
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