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Stuart Hameroff1, Alex Nip, Mitchell Porter

  • 1Department of Anesthesiology and Psychology, Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. hameroff@u.arizona.edu

Bio Systems
|January 5, 2002
PubMed
Summary

This study explores quantum effects in biological systems, specifically within cellular microtubules. Researchers found evidence for electron mobility and quantum tunneling in tubulin proteins, suggesting a role for quantum computation in biological information processing.

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