[Results signal important advances in the commercialization of Quantum Chemistry applications](https://cambridgequantum.com/2018/10/04/cqc-and-jsr-corp-issue-statement-on-their-quantum-computing-project/)

[Quantum computing: the power to think outside the box](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2338/Quantum%2Bcomputing_%2Bthe%2Bpower%2Bto%2Bthink%2Boutside%2Bthe%2Bbox_C2_A0%2B_%2BFinancial%2BTimes.pdf)
> With potential uses in healthcare and finance, the technology promises to revolutionise computing
> three areas: computational chemistry, machine learning, and optimization problems

[Biology takes a quantum leap](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2536/Biology%2Btakes%2Ba%2Bquantum%2Bleap%2B_%2BFinancial%2BTimes.pdf)
Evidence is beginning to emerge that quantum effects play a role in biological processes such as photosynthesis

## Companies

- GTN

- ProteinQ

[A quantum alternating operator ansatz with hard and soft constraints for lattice protein folding](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.13411.pdf)
>  Additionally, we performed a proof-of-concept QPU implementation. Using a divide-and-conquer approach together with the XYback mixer Hamiltonian we successfully folded the mini protein PSVK on a planar lattice with **a QAOA circuit on Rigetti’s 19Q-Acorn processor**. With respect to **nearterm NISQ computers, the new encoding as well as the new mixer Hamiltonians might not only improve** the solution quality but also be beneficial in terms of practicality depending on the chip topology and the available universal gate set.