A new paper written by a theoretical physicist at Howard University claims that aneural eukaryotic cells could process information up to a billion times faster than typical biochemical processes. This idea forms from the emerging evidence that biology and quantum mechanics may not be as mutually exclusive as scientists originally thought. Combined with QBL’s discovery last year, an idea has taken shape that aneural organisms may be able to use these quantum signals to process information. Typically, biochemical signals involve neurons moving across cells, but in a quantum sense, tryptophan could be acting like quantum fiber optics. However, what seemed inconceivable decades ago—combing the quantum world with the biological one—is quickly become less so as we learn more about the subatomic biological world.