Quantum Biology: An Update and Perspective

Youngchan Kim; Federico Bertagna; Edeline M. D’Souza; Derren J. Heyes; Linus O. Johannissen; Eveliny Tomas Nery; Antonio Pantelias; Alejandro SanchezPedreno; Louie Slocombe; Michael G. Spencer; Jim Al-Khalili; Gregory S. Engel; Sam Hay; Suzanne M. Hingley-Wilson; Kamalan Jeevaratnam; Alex Jones; Daniel Kattnig; Rebecca Lewis; Marco Sacchi; Nigel Scrutton; S. Ravi P. Silva; Johnjoe McFadden

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Quantum Biology: An Update and Perspective

Youngchan Kim, Federico Bertagna, Edeline M. D’Souza, Derren J. Heyes, Linus O. Johannissen, Eveliny Tomas Nery, Antonio Pantelias, Alejandro SanchezPedreno, Louie Slocombe, Michael G. Spencer, Jim Al-Khalili, Gregory S. Engel, Sam Hay, Suzanne M. Hingley-Wilson, Kamalan Jeevaratnam, Alex Jones, Daniel Kattnig, Rebecca Lewis, Marco Sacchi, Nigel ScruttonS. Ravi P. Silva, Johnjoe McFadden

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Understanding the rules of life is one of the most important scientific endeavours and has revolutionised both biology and biotechnology. Remarkable advances in observation techniques allow us to investigate a broad range of complex and dynamic biological processes in which living systems could exploit quantum behaviour to enhance and regulate biological functions. Recent evidence suggests that these non-trivial quantum mechanical effects may play a crucial role in maintaining the non-equilibrium state of biomolecular systems. Quantum biology is the study of such quantum aspects of living systems. In this review, we summarise the latest progress in quantum biology, including the areas of enzyme-catalysed reactions, photosynthesis, spin-dependent reactions, DNA, fluorescent proteins, and ion channels. Many of these results are expected to be fundamental building blocks towards understanding the rules of life.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	80-126
Journal	Quantum Reports
Volume	3
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/quantum3010006
Publication status	Published - 26 Jan 2021

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Kim, Y., Bertagna, F., D’Souza, E. M., Heyes, D. J., Johannissen, L. O., Nery, E. T., Pantelias, A., SanchezPedreno, A., Slocombe, L., Spencer, M. G., Al-Khalili, J., Engel, G. S., Hay, S., Hingley-Wilson, S. M., Jeevaratnam, K., Jones, A., Kattnig, D., Lewis, R., Sacchi, M., ... McFadden, J. (2021). Quantum Biology: An Update and Perspective. Quantum Reports, 3(1), 80-126. https://doi.org/10.3390/quantum3010006

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