sam@geac.com (Sam Wong) (09/18/90)
The March 1989 issue of Science (Vol 243, pp 1325-1330), there is an article, "Hydrogen Tunnelling in Enzyme Reactions" by Yuan Cha, Christopher J Murray, and Judith P Klinman. I am neither a biochemist nor a physicist, but if quantum mechanics do play a significant role in biochemical reactions, what are the implications for the assemblers required in nanotechnology? [It seems to me that the implications are mainly for the *design* of assemblers, particularly that simulators will have to be a lot more sophistocated than they are. I should point out that simulators do not now generally handle bond formation, so we knew that there was work to be done! --JoSH]