There seems to be no connection between the two, but 80 years ago, legendary physicist Erwin Schrödinger hinted that biological systems are possibly driven by quantum effects that are yet to be ...

Quantum biology links electron spin to proton transport, revealing new and precise control mechanisms in cells.

Systems biology is the study of biological systems whose behaviour cannot be reduced to the linear sum of their parts’ functions. Systems biology does not necessarily involve large numbers of ...

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Asymmetric interactions between molecules may serve as a stabilizing factor for biological systems. A new model by researchers in the Department of Living Matter Physics at the Max Planck ...