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Susana F. Huelga, Martin B. Plenio
> Quantum biology is an emerging field of research that concerns itself with the experimental and theoretical exploration of non-trivial quantum phenomena in biological systems. In this tutorial overview we aim to bring out fundamental assumptions and questions in the field, identify basic design principles and develop…
Ji‐Yong Sung, Jae‐Ho Cheong
1## INTRODUCTION For decades, biology has been interpreted largely through a classical lens. Cells have been described as ensembles of biochemical reactions governed by thermodynamics and kinetics, where diffusion, collision theory and energy barriers dictate rates and outcomes. Within this framework, living systems…
Gianluigi Mazzoccoli
Biological processes and physiological functions in living beings are featured by oscillations with a period of about 24 h (circadian) or cycle at the second and third harmonic (ultradian) of the basic frequency, driven by the biological clock. This molecular mechanism, common to all kingdoms of life, comprising…
Luke J. Kinsey, Wendy S. Beane, Kelly Ai-Sun Tseng
Quantum biology studies span multiple disciplines including physics, engineering, and biology with the goal of understanding the quantum underpinnings of living systems. Recent findings have brought wide attention to the role of quantum mechanisms in the function and regulation of biological processes. Moreover, a…
Neil D. Theise, Jack A. Tuszynski
Founders of quantum mechanics (QM) anticipated that revisions to classical physics due to strange elements of quantum reality, would necessitate similar changes in biology. Complexity theory, systems biology and quantum biology provide possible solutions indicating that subject/object separation is a useful fiction for…
Lea Gassab, Betony Adams, Yashine H. Goolam Hossen, Abbas Hassasfar + 6 more
Quantum science and biology now intersect in three complementary directions: quantum in biology, quantum for biology, and biology for quantum. This review provides a structured narrative evidence map of that interface rather than an exhaustive catalogue or formal systematic review. For each topic, we ask what the…
Michael Bordonaro, Vasily Ogryzko
Quantum biology is emerging as a new field at the intersection between fundamental physics and biology, promising novel insights into the nature and origin of biological order. We discuss several elements of QBCL (Quantum Biology at Cellular Level) – a research program designed to extend the reach of quantum concepts…
Takeshi Yasuda, Nakako Nakajima, Tomoko Yanaka, Takaya Gotoh + 3 more
Quantum tunneling is a phenomenon in which small quantum particles pass through a reaction energy barrier, as if they were passing through a tunnel opened in the barrier. In this study, we analyzed the involvement of the quantum tunneling effect in enzymatic chemical reactions involving hydrolysis in vitro, by…
Daniele Romanello, Andrea Romanello
This study presents the hypothesis that triosephosphate isomerase (TIM), a pivotal enzyme in glycolysis, functions as a quantum logic gate. Utilizing quantum mechanics, we model TIM’s catalytic conversion of dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) to glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (G3P) as a quantum operation involving precise…
Nicolas P. Mauranyapin, Alex Terrason, Warwick P. Bowen
Quantum technologies leverage the laws of quantum physics to achieve performance advantages in applications ranging from computing to communications and sensing. They have been proposed to have a range of applications in biological science. This includes better microscopes and biosensors, improved simulations of…
Majid Mokhtari, Samane Khoshbakht, Kobra Ziyaei, Mohammad Esmaeil Akbari + 1 more
'Mohammad Esmaeil Akbari' 'Sayyed Sajjad Moravveji'] Title: Abstract Bioinformatics has revolutionized biology and medicine by using computational methods to analyze and interpret biological data. Quantum mechanics has recently emerged as a promising tool for the analysis of biological systems, leading to the…
Bruno F. E. Matarèse, Andrej Rusin, Colin Seymour, Carmel Mothersill + 2 more
'Mauro Belli' 'Maria Antonella Tabocchini'] It is well established that cells, tissues, and organisms exposed to low doses of ionizing radiation can induce effects in non-irradiated neighbors (non-targeted effects or NTE), but the mechanisms remain unclear. This is especially true of the initial steps leading to the…
Nathan S. Babcock, Brandy N. Babcock
Dr. Nathan S. Babcock is a distinguished expert in the quantum sciences, with over two decades of experience primarily concentrated in the domain of quantum biology. His academic journey began at two prominent Canadian quantum research institutions: the University of Waterloo in Ontario and the University of Calgary in…
Patrícia Verdugo Pascoal, Deborah Bambil, Rayane N. Lima, Marco Antônio de Oliveira + 3 more
Quantum biology is an emergent field that investigates quantum-mechanical phenomena, such as superposition, tunneling, and entanglement, in the context of data manipulation from living systems. The exploration and engineering of nucleotide sequences rely on quantum mechanical principles, particularly the use of qubit…
Patrícia Verdugo Pascoal, Deborah Bambil, Luisa Mayumi Arake de Tacca, Rayane Nunes Lima + 3 more
The accelerated exploration and engineering of nucleotide sequences are directed towards quantum mechanics and their intrinsic entanglements, implementing the qubits states, including the development of algorithms. The production rate of biological sequencing data has increased to approximately 1 Gb/h, but the ability…
LUO Liaofu, YANG Guochen
A quantum model on DNA structure is proposed. By introducing the self-consistent harmonic potential in the X-Y plane vertical to helix axis (z-direction) and the periodic potential along the z-axis we obtain the wave function for the single nucleotide and the many-nucleotide system. The helix distribution of bases is…
T. Rammler, F. Wackenhut, S. zur Oven-Krockhaus, J. Rapp + 3 more
The first step in photosynthesis is an extremely efficient energy transfer mechanism, which is difficult to be explained by classical short-range energy migration (“hopping”) and led to the debate to which extent quantum coherence is involved in the energy transfer between the photosynthetic pigments. Embedding living…
Patrick Ross
The phenomenon of adaptive mutation in bacteria presents several challenges to classical models of evolution, particularly regarding the observed coordination of mutation patterns across populations. Here, we examine statistical evidence from evolved Escherichia coli populations showing mutation enrichment up to…
George Ellis
Is there a single linearly evolving Wave Function of the Universe that is able to lead to all the nonlinearities we see around us? This proposal seems a priori highly implausible. I claim that instead, in the real Universe, generically only local wave functions exist. Non-local wave functions occur for carefully…
Vasily Ogryzko
In a recent publication, 'A model of epigenetic evolution based on theory of open quantum systems' [1], the authors state: "We call our model quantum-like (QL) to distinguish it from really quantum models in cell biology: reducing cell's behavior to quantum particles inside a cell, e.g., Ogryzko [2, 3], McFadden and…
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We describe a collaborative research project spanning the disciplines of quantum hardware, quantum algorithms, conventional computational chemistry, synthetic medicinal chemistry and life sciences. Our project seeks to demonstrate an impact of quantum computing on human health. It is one of several funded by Wellcome…
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Molecular dynamics (MD) and hybrid quantum–classical (QM/MM) methods provide powerful tools for simulating chemical and biological systems, yet their application to long-timescale, strongly coupled processes remains limited by non-integrability, chaotic sensitivity, and extreme time-scale separation. These limitations…
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We present a chemical framework in which adaptive organization is achieved by tuning a gated quantum resonator (adaptive genomic resonator) {driven quantum oscillator} across a driven, dissipative reaction manifold (fitness landscape) {Hamiltonian potential surface}. In this view, catalytic elements set gain and phase…
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This conceptual framework proposes an out-of-the-box approach to innovate non-biological drugs that surpass biologics by 200-fold in efficacy and safety for cancer treatment. Integrating advanced paradigms from physics, chemistry, medicine, biology, engineering, and materials science, we delineate a multi-dimensional…
David Thompson, Johan Gielis
Our understanding of quantum phenomena often begins with simple particle-in-a-box style problems, the solutions of which introduce the student to foundational quantum concepts such as degeneracy and quantization. Simple model geometries of confinement afford analytic solutions, which are readily derivable, easily…
Umberto Lucia, Giulia Grisolia
Causality is the relationship between causes and effects. Following Relativity, any cause of an event must always be in the past light cone of the event itself, but causes and effect must always be related to some interactions. In this paper, causality is developed as a consequence of the analysis of the Einstein…