Quantum Entanglement May Hold DNA Together, New Study Says

correct me if im wrong but quantum entanglement gives no bonding characteristics and based on the way DNA is made, cannot be present

intriguing, but further research is needed

if this proves to be true, than maybe other biological processes involve "spooky" action, telepathy perhaps?

While their model may have some things to say about certain types of polymers, "electrons orbiting a positively charged nucleus" is not a good model for hydrogen bonds. The whole point of a hydrogen bond is that there are at least two nuclei involved, one of which pulls the electron cloud more strongly than the other to create a strong dipole.

Creating a good computational model for an electron cloud is a nice achievement, but I believe they attempted to connect their work to DNA just to sensationalize it and get more attention.

I cant wait to see how deepak chopra spins this into his idiotic theorys

@Jedigeek93: "if this proves to be true, than maybe other biological processes involve "spooky" action, telepathy perhaps?"

This really isn't all the far fetched. Many philosophers have talked about the following. Thought is energy, every we know in the universe is essentially made of energy. It either is energy or vibrating energy. And when it comes down to it an atom is simply information. The quantum information of its position in space in time. In short we are hear because we think we are here. Its the idea of the entire universe being part of one giant collective consciousness. Quantum entanglement can fall into this theory and explains other strange things like telepathy, etc. We can move or change big things becuase we are such a tiny tiny part of the entire hole. They have been cases when large groups of people have impacted certain events. I am not saying I believe in it, but it makes some kind of sense and is fun to think about.

If what the reaserchers are saying is correct then all one would have to do is "observe" the electron cloud to cause the decoherence to disrupt and cause the system to break down into a clasical non-entangled system.

If this is what is holding the DNA strand intact it would then break down and you would have significant evidence to the entangelment theory.

It must be rather difficult to observe the electron cloud or DNA would be breaking down all the time. Maybe observation naturally occurs but at a very small scale which could explain the eventual decay of DNA replication.

Also if you could hit someone with some kind of measurement beam you could disrupt all their DNA at once and kill them almost instantly. Death ray anyone?

So based on a contrived non-physical model of DNA, they have then concluded that a contrived quantum principle is what is responsible for holding together their contrived non-physical model of DNA?

Just like a physicist.

"Let's model a cow as a round metal sphere in a vacuum."

Kudos if this can be proven, but these days 'quantum entanglement' is all the rage and I have my doubts.

Dear Popsci...
Quanntum entanglement and superposition are 2 different things!

first it says quantum entenglement, and later on it says superposition.

You've made this mistake earlier at photon superposition saying it was quantum entanglement...

@Jedigeek93,@inaka_rob: Quantum entanglement in DNA as a mechanism for telepathy. The existance of telepathy has which has never been proved. Talk about 'energy' and 'vibrations' is all just nonsense and not science at all