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GR FLEMING's group at Berkely showed that quantum biology was key in photosynthesis in 2008. This was the tipping point for QB in biology. https://lnkd.in/ek-f7g7 View in LinkedIn

VIRUSES CONSUME HOST ATP. "The concentration of ATP is reduced in HCV-infected cells...These results suggest that ATP is actively consumed during viral replication in HCV replicon cells, leading to decreased levels of ATP in the cytoplasm." (Why viral infections leave you without energy). https://lnkd.in/eXVs6py View in LinkedIn

QB TIPPING POINT. “Up to then, all these ideas in quantum biology sounded good, but they lacked experimental evidence...The photosynthesis experiments changed people’s minds." http://discovermagazine.com/2014/dec/17-this-quantum-life View in LinkedIn

100 ATP PER SECOND. "ATP synthesis occurs at a maximal rate of the order of 100 s−1," in a single ATP synthase, each twirl of the motor is driven by 9 H(+) ions. This motor can spin at up to 9,000 RPM. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005272802001858 View in LinkedIn

ATP SYNTHESIS. "Conventional biological models described the electrons as hopping from molecule to molecule within mitochondria, but — once again — this simple picture cannot account for the speed at which ATP is spit out... a (new) model in which, rather than hopping, the electrons exist in a quantum superposition, smeared out at once across all the molecules in the ATP production line...calculations predicted a boosted ATP production rate, as seen in experiments." http://discovermagazine.com/2014/dec/17-this-quantum-life View in LinkedIn

NOT A STORED FUEL. "ATP is an energy-coupling agent and not a fuel. It is not a storehouse of energy set aside for some future need. Rather it is produced by one set of reactions and is almost immediately consumed by another. Energy metabolism is therefore mostly self-regulating." https://lnkd.in/eN5s-r4 View in LinkedIn

NOVEL CRYPTOBIOSIS. "This would be something new to biologists, even if it might seem trivial to physicists. It would have implications concerning the physical extremes organisms can tolerate, the search for extraterrestrial life, and our philosophical view of animation." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10539-015-9500-4 View in LinkedIn

NOVEL CRYPTOBIOSIS. "If organisms can survive having previously been in a coherent state, then we must accept that living systems do not necessarily need to remain in a decoherent state at all times. This would be something new to biologists, even if it might seem trivial to physicists. It would have implications concerning the physical extremes organisms can tolerate, the search for extraterrestrial life, and our philosophical view of animation." http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10539-015-9500-4 View in LinkedIn

SCHRÖDINGER'S MICROBE. "Here, we comment from a biological perspective upon experiments in quantum mechanics proposed by physicists that are likely to feasible in the near future. In these experiments, an entire living organism would be knowingly placed into a coherent quantum state for the first time, i.e. would be coerced into demonstrating quantum phenomena." https://lnkd.in/exvtA7B View in LinkedIn

BACTERIAL QUANTUM SUPERPOSITION. "Schrödinger's microbe: physicists plan to put living organism in two places at once. “Although it has attracted enormous interest, no quantum superposition state of an organism has been realized. So we propose a straightforward approach to put a microbe into a superposition of two spatial states, that is, the microbe will be at two different positions at the same time." https://lnkd.in/erBq7Wx View in LinkedIn