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Frölich’s theory of coherent excitations in biological systems (Frölich, 1968, 1980) predicts interactions between living cells at distances greater than the range of chemical forces. To exhibit such an interaction the theory requires the cells to have, as is normal, a membrane potential, a supply of energy and, of course, an intact structure. Such an interaction between human red blood cells at a distance of several micrometres has been experimentally demonstrated by one method (Rowlands et al., 1982a, b) and confirmed by another (Fritz, 1984). The interaction disappears when the structure of the cells is disorganised and it disappears reversibly if either the membrane potential or the supply of energy is brought to zero.
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Rowlands, S. (1989). Note on the Experimental Evidence for Quantum Mechanical Coherence in Red Blood Cells. In: Gruber, B., Iachello, F. (eds) Symmetries in Science III. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0787-7_40
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