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SCOUT· 20%35m·2026-01-08·ScienceThe Breakthrough Quantum Sensor That Sees Inside Your Cells, with Peter Maurer
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What if we could precisely measure a cell at its most fundamental level? In this episode, we talk with the University of Chicago scientist Peter Maurer about how he and his colleagues made the breakthrough discovery of turning a protein found in living cells into the first biological quantum bit, also known as a…
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