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Volume 15: Number 2: Article 2
Bio-photons and Bio-communication
R. VanWijk, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Utrecht University,
Utrecht, The Netherlands;
and International Institute of Biophysics, Neuss, Germany
The topic of bio-informational aspects of photon emission has a history
of more than eighty years. It is an example of a research topic that
is inadequately studied within mainstream biology. This article reviews
the research activities during the three main phases of this line of
this research. The first period is characterized by Gurwitsch-type experimentation
on mitogenetic radiation. Radiation was detected by changes in biological
organisms that function as radiation detectors. The second phase is
characterized by the development and application of sensitive photomultiplier
tubes for the detection of radiation from organisms and cells. These
studies were extended with the question about the chemical and enzymatic
origin of radiation. In this phase hardly any attention was paid to
the question of radiation with a bio-informational character. In the
third period research is again focussed on the informational aspects
of photon emission. This bio-photon research is hardly recognized in
mainstream science so far, but in the opinion of the author it deserves
careful consideration. For this reason this article presents an overview
of the literature which might be helpful for giving careful consideration
to the bio-informational character of bio-photons.
Keywords: bio-photons, chemiluminescence, communication, mito-genetic
radiation
Bio-photons and Bio-communication
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