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Published online 5 September 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030901-8
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Molecules of life come in waves
Compounds found in cells show quantum behaviour.
Physicists have watched biological molecules become waves in a dramatic demonstration of the effects of quantum mechanics1.
It's not clear that biological molecules act like quantum waves in this way as they go about their business in living cells.
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