Several recent findings may indicate that key biological processes surprisingly hinge on quantum effects:
"The Origin of Life And The Hidden Role of Quantum Criticality"
- Quantum criticality must have played a crucial role in the origin of life say researchers
who have found its hidden signature in a wide range of important biomolecules
https://medium.com/the-physics…-criticality-ca4707924552
"Have We Found Alien Life?"
- Microbes that eat and breathe electricity have forced scientists to reimagine how life
works—on this planet and others
- “All the textbooks say it shouldn’t be possible,” he says, “but by golly, those things
just keep growing on the electrode, and there’s no other source of energy there.”
http://www.popsci.com/have-we-found-alien-life
"Brian Ahern discusses nanomagnetism, superconductors and low energy nuclear reaction"
- Ahern speculates that appropriately sized chains of biomolecules conduct and localize
electrical energy with much higher than expected efficiency
http://nextbigfuture.com/2014/…cusses-nanomagnetism.html
Perhaps, these make the very counter-intuitive claims of bio-transmutations a bit more plausible.