I'm imagining a situation where someone can somehow send the apoptosis signal to every cell in my body.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCSSgxV9qNw Why Is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems In Physics?
And whatever "intelligence" it would take to consciously think from first principles to those kinds of shapes, well, there's no upper limit to the possible sophistication that might be required to manually get there. But nature gets there blindly, and uses every possible thing.
Except having to work from a legacy codebase via incremental changes. No way for evolution to explore silicon based life when it kicked off with carbon.
Oh, I don't know. Isn't that what we're for?
Quantum biological tunnelling for electron transfer is involved in controlling essential functions for life such as cellular respiration and homoeostasis. Understanding and controlling the quantum effects in biology has the potential to modulate biological functions. Here we merge wireless nano-electrochemical tools with cancer cells for control over electron transfer to trigger cancer cell death. Gold bipolar nanoelectrodes functionalized with redox-active cytochrome c and a redox mediator zinc porphyrin are developed as electric-field-stimulating bio-actuators, termed bio-nanoantennae. We show that a remote electrical input regulates electron transport between these redox molecules, which results in quantum biological tunnelling for electron transfer to trigger apoptosis in patient-derived cancer cells in a selective manner. Transcriptomics data show that the electric-field-induced bio-nanoantenna targets the cancer cells in a unique manner, representing electrically induced control of molecular signalling. The work shows the potential of quantum-based medical diagnostics and treatments.
