Photo-cells

May 22, 2012 – 10:12 pm

Our reader The Big Henry has been sending along some engaging science-related links lately, and he’s just sent me another. This one has to do with the possibility that “biophotons” — light quanta emitted within living cells — may be a channel for some sort of information transfer.

I’ve never heard anything about this until just now (this is something quite distinct from conventional bioluminescence). Learn more here.

Posted by Malcolm on at 10:12 pm, filed under Science, Technology. RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

3 Comments

  1. JK says

    Question TBH.

    Are there any mentions in the literature of whether bacteria emit these biophotons? More specifically, the sorts of bacteria found in the gut?

    Posted May 23, 2012 at 7:19 pm | Permalink
  2. TheBigHenry says

    I haven’t done a literature search, JK; just came across the link that Malcolm has embedded in this post.

    But if you are interested, I would start here:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophoton

    Posted May 23, 2012 at 9:48 pm | Permalink
  3. JK says

    Thanks TBH.

    Posted May 24, 2012 at 6:28 am | Permalink

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