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Quantum entanglement has recently been demonstrated in macroscopic structures at the scale of microns. The densely packed chromatin that efficiently stores DNA strands may allow for gene expression through epigenetic modifiers within the close proximity of nearby strands and may also experience gene expression through quantum entanglement of epigenetic modifiers. Such an approach may have an evolutionary advantage in the densely packed realm of chromatin.
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Harney, M. (2020). The Effects of Quantum Entanglement on Chromatin and Gene Expression. In: Vlamos, P. (eds) GeNeDis 2018. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1195. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32633-3_11
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