Wednesday, July 17, 2019

The future of quantum biology

 How does DNA, with stacked nucleotides separated by about 0.3 nm, deal with UV photons?

How does an enzyme catalyze an essential biochemical reaction?

How does our brain with neurons organized on a sub-nanometer scale deal with such an amazing amount of information?

How do DNA replication and expression work?

All these bio-logical functions should, of course, be considered in the context of evolutionary fitness.

The differences between a classical approximation and a quantum-mechanical model are generally thought to be negligible in these cases, even though at the basis every process is entirely governed by the laws of quantum mechanics.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328934332_The_future_of_quantum_biology

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