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Photon emission and quantum signalling in biological systems

“…We've assumed that the main features of such signaling can be similar to the information exchange in electronic sircuits. This hypothesis is supported by the recent experiments which show that the radiation of some species consists of narrow quasi-periodic bursts, so its time structure is similar to the sequence of electronic or photonic pulses which transfer information in computer nets [1,4]. To verify our model we performed the data analysis for the radiation from loach fish eggs measured by the photomultiplier [1,3].…”

“…It's natural to suppose that the long-time evolution of living species made the information exchange by means of photon radiation/absorption practically optimal, so the radiation of arbitrary bio-system in general would satisfy the described conditions. The experiments with fish eggs, fibroblast cells and other bio-systems demonstrated that the bio-photons are radiated by short-time (less than 1 msec) quasi-periodic bursts [1,4]. As the example, the typical photodetector signal from fish eggs radiation is shown on fig.…”

“…The systematic study of optical and soft UV radiation emitted by living bio-systems continues now for more than thirty years [1,2]; its existence is established now for different biological species [3,4]. The frequency spectra of such bio-photons is nearly constant throughout optical range for studied bio-systems [5], so it essentially differs from the spectra expected for the system with the temperature about 300 0 K, which in this range should fall on 15 orders of magnitude [2,3].…”

“…The typical bio-photon production rates are quite low, however, multiple experiments evidence that such radiation can perform effective signaling between distant bio-systems [2][3][4]. In particular, being radiated by the growing organism or plant and absorbed by the similar one at the distance about several cm, it can rise the rate of cell division (mitosis) in it up to 30% relative to the standard values.…”

Historical review of early researches on mitogenetic radiation: from discovery to cancer diagnostics

“…One more surge in interest to the topic in the 1980-90s was initiated by rather beautiful hypothesis on ability of cells to radiate and highly-selectively detect radiation of extremely high coherence, "biophotons" [49]. This hypothesis has not got enough experimental proof till present [42,50,51], characteristic time of coherence of biological chemiluminescence in optical range seems to be no more than nanoseconds [52][53][54]. Lots of shallow popular scientific publications about this unverified hypothesis and its mispresentation as an epoch-making discovery in mass media compromised the effect, which this hypothesis was trying to explain.…”