The Winton Lecture: Is Life Quantum Mechanical?

Physicists and chemists are accustomed to dealing with the weird world of quantum mechanics, but it is only recently that biologists have been concerned with the subatomic world. Exciting discoveries in this new field of Quantum Biology are beginning to emerge. Join author and broadcaster Profesor Jim Al-Khalili, currently writing a book on this topic with his University of Surrey colleague Johnjoe McFadden, as he explores how fragile quantum mechanical phenomena survive in the wet, warm biological world.

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//mw954?id=EVENT472092