Comment on Masanari Asano et al. A model of epigenetic evolution based on theory of open quantum systems. Syst Synth Biol, 2013

2013/12/16 by Vasily Ogryzko, Ogryzko, Vasily
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Biofield Effects and Biophysics #Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB) #FOS: Biological sciences #Origins and Evolution of Life #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #q-bio.CB

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1312.4440

4 pages

arxiv created 2013/12/16 · openalex publication_date 2013/12/16 · arxiv updated 2013/12/17 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The comment mostly concerns mis-representation of my position on Quantum Biology, by stating that I am 'reducing cell's behavior to quantum particles inside the cell'. I contrast my position with that of McFadden-Al-Khalili, as well as with the position of Asano et al. I also advertise an idea, described in our latest paper (Bordonaro, Ogryzko. Quantum Biology at the Cellular level - elements of the research program, BioSystems, 2013), for the need of synthetic biology in testing some predictions that follow from our approach.

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