Scientists are reporting evidence that contrary to our current beliefs about what is possible, intact double-stranded DNA has the “amazing” ability to recognize similarities in other DNA strands from a distance. Somehow they are able to identify one another, and the tiny bits of genetic material tend to congregate with similar DNA. The recognition of similar sequences in DNA’s chemical subunits, occurs in a way unrecognized by science. There is no known reason why the DNA is able to combine the way it does, and from a current theoretical standpoint this feat should be chemically impossible.
Implications–down the road, oh way way down the road–for understanding of recombination errors, which are factors in cancer, aging, and other minor things like that. Plus it’s, y’know, cool: spooky DNA telepathy. (Via Cindy.)
Nicola Griffith 
This makes me think of Neal Stephenson's “Anathem,” which has as a fairly major plot point the theory that the human brain works via quantum entanglement. There is some weird Platonic World & Kant's brain-box & suchlike going on in that book.
I haven’t read it. But, yep, quantum entanglement is a nifty concept.
Once it was a bunch of little DNAs floating in warm Ur-soup. Somehow they seperated and became an amazing variety of creatures. But it doesn’t surprise me if they’re trying to get back together. Ain’t it a wonderful world.