Cells May Communicate Through Light

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 24, 2009 @04:05AM from the not-cool-enough-for-iphones dept.

SilverLobe writes "The hypothesis that living cells may use photons for communications has been on the fringes of cell biology for a while. No proof positive exists, but there is some strong circumstantial evidence. Byte Size Biology reports on a simple experiment that shows how the unicellular protozoan Paramecium may use so called 'biophotons' to signal for growth and feeding. The original academic paper in PLoS ONE concludes: '... not all cellular processes are necessarily based on a molecule-receptor recognition. The non-molecular signals are most probably photons. If so, cells use more than one frequency for information transfer and mutual influence.'"

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Re:No proof... by SUB7IME · 2009-05-24 04:19 · Score: 2, Funny

"Mathematics reserves the right for universal truths."
^
Godel might have something to say about that.
Prove it. by jeffb+(2.718) · 2009-05-24 04:35 · Score: 4, Funny

"Mathematics reserves the right for universal truths."
^
Godel might have something to say about that.
In the most universal sense.