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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

SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT tackles the counter-intuitive concept of quantum superposition or dual realities. https://lnkd.in/eTKxZEQ View in LinkedIn

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CELLULAR SUICIDE. "Apoptosis, a form of programmed cell death (PCD), is a genetically regulated active physiological process of cell suicide that causes cell deletion without inflammation, scarring, or release of cellular contents. Mitochondria of living cells play a pivotal role in controlling life and death." https://lnkd.in/eUWbyuT View in LinkedIn

MITOCHONDRIAL PERMEABILITY TRANSITION results "in the structural and functional collapse of mitochondria, an event that commits cells to suicide via regulated necrosis or apoptosis." https://lnkd.in/eyXYjxQ View in LinkedIn

LIMBO. "The term mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT) is commonly used to indicate an abrupt increase in the permeability of the inner mitochondrial membrane to low molecular weight solutes. Widespread MPT has catastrophic consequences for the cell, de facto marking the boundary between cellular life and death." https://lnkd.in/eyXYjxQ View in LinkedIn

COEXISTENCE. "This would explain the frequent coexistence of both types of cell death in pathological situations...where individual cell death within the tissue would be decided by the energy supply." https://lnkd.in/e3cRBYE View in LinkedIn

"APOPTOSIS and necrosis would be two extremes of a continuum of possible types of cell demise, whose shape and implications for the neighboring tissue would be decided by the availability of ATP, and likely by additional factors in the dying cell and in scavenger cells. This would explain the frequent coexistence of both types of cell death in pathological situations...where individual cell death within the tissue would be decided by the energy supply." https://lnkd.in/e3cRBYE View in LinkedIn