You should watch this before looking at the article:
<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/jim_al_khalili_how_quantum_biology_might_explain_life_s_biggest_questions" rel="nofollow">http://www.ted.com/talks/jim_al_khalili_how_quantum_biology_...</a>
This is not brand new (not this particular research, but quantum systems in nature).
It has long been known that some enzymatic reactions take advantage of quantum tunnelling to bridge reaction energies<p>- sources to come (mobile)