A photon count is just a pulse crossing a threshold. The real question: is it signal, or is your detector lying? Tanaka & Haruyama (2009) nail the ugly truth—dark counts aren't uniform noise. They're skewed: too many tiny pulses, too many fat ones. #Science

New in the Biophotoniq Network 🌐 Welcome Prof Stan Botchway — UKRI Research Fellow and Principal Investigator at UKRI-STFC. 📍 Oxford, United Kingdom → biophotoniq.net/network.html #biophotons #UPE #openscience

A photon count isn't a photon—it's a pulse crossing a threshold. Martínez Ricci et al. (2007) show this beautifully with a simple scope setup. But here's the kicker: afterpulsing, dark counts, and dead time all masquerade as "signal." Biophoton folks, what's your favorite artifact that fooled you?

A seed in the dark, still remembering light. Flash it once, then count the photons it whispers back—that’s delayed luminescence. Yan et al. (2003) found barley seeds with poor germination emit *more* DL, not less. #Science

Wounds glow while they heal — not metaphor, actual photons from oxidative chemistry. Jinno et al. (2020) measured biophotons from rat wounds treated with atmospheric plasma, finding emission patterns that track healing stages. Solid: real-time, non-contact oxidative stress readout. #Science

(1/3) Imagine your hands glowing—not from a flashlight, but from your own metabolism. Human skin emits ultra-weak light, and Scholkmann et al. (2018) captured it. They imaged spontaneous autoluminescence from hands and found it varies by time of day, date, and person. #Science

New in the Biophotoniq Network 🌐 Welcome Masakazu Katsumata — Section Manager at Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.. 📍 Hamamatsu, Japan → biophotoniq.net/network.html #biophotons #UPE #openscience

A Ge diode chilled to -196°C, staring at a cuvette—that’s how you catch ¹O₂ whispering at 1270 nm. Lengfelder et al. (1983) compared monomol vs dimol emission directly, then threw DABCO in to see what broke. The catch? DABCO *enhanced* both, but shifted the monomol/dimol ratio. #Science

A cell glowing in the dark isn’t poetry—it’s a readout of its own oxidation. But can we trust that glow as a real-time stress marker? Vahalová & Cifra (2023) map BAL against O₂, pH, temperature, and metabolites like glutathione. The methionine pathway popped out as a surprising correlate. #Science

et al. (2023) in : was refuted, and biological autoluminescence gradually became recognized as a ubiquitous and well-proven phenomenon. A. #Biophotons #UPE #Science

Picture a Ge diode cooled to -196°C, staring into a cuvette, waiting for a single 1270 nm photon to say "¹O₂ was here." That's how Di Mascio et al. (1994) caught singlet oxygen from peroxynitrite + H₂O₂. #Science

New in the Biophotoniq Network 🌐 Welcome Eduard van Wijk — Scientific director at Meluna Research. Focus: biophotonics, biophysics, measurement technologies, light-based research 📍 Wageningen, Netherlands → biophotoniq.net/network.html #biophotons #UPE #openscience

(1/3) (1/3) How do you catch light so faint it makes a firefly look like a stadium floodlight? Biological autoluminescence (UPE) is ~100 photons/s/cm²—below human vision by a factor of 10,000. Mould et al. (2024) walk through why detector choice makes or breaks the measurement. #Science

Every Cell in Your Body Glows. That Light Could Unlock Extraordinary Insights About Life Itself ->Popular Mechanics | More on "Biophotons cellular light biological insights" at BigEarthData.ai

Miyamoto et al. (2003) in Journal of the American Chemical Society: that probably occurs via the combination of [18] O-labeled peroxyl radical of linoleic acid (LA [18] O [18] O [•] ). #Biophotons #UPE #Science

(1/3) (1/3) What if the "biophoton signal" isn't just noise — but has structure that classical physics can't explain? Bajpai (2007) claims exactly that: he argues the shape and fluctuations of biophoton signals demand a quantum squeezed-state description, not standard photon statistics. #Science

What if cells really do communicate via light? Popp et al. (1994) measured ultra-weak photon emission from living systems—a genuine, reproducible phenomenon. But the leap from "cells emit photons" to "this is a coherent regulatory field" overshoots the data by light-years. #Science

New in the Biophotoniq Network 🌐 Welcome Rhys Mould — Research Fellow at University of Westmisnter. Focus: upe, cellular signalling, in vitro 📍 London, United Kingdom → biophotoniq.net/network.html #biophotons #UPE #openscience

New in the Biophotoniq Network 🌐 Welcome Jimmy D Bell — Professor at University of Westminster. Focus: biophotons, health, disease 📍 London, United Kingdom → biophotoniq.net/network.html #biophotons #UPE #openscience

New in the Biophotoniq Network 🌐 Welcome Christoph Simon & Daniel Oblak — University Professors at University of Calgary. Focus: biophoton detection, quantum effects, radical pairs, magnetic fields 📍 Calgary, Canada → biophotoniq.net/network.html #biophotons #UPE #openscience

(1/3) (1/3) Can photons carry information *inside* your brain? Tang & Dai (2014) proposed that biophotons — ultra-weak light from oxidative metabolism — might travel along neural fibers as a signal, not just a metabolic byproduct. It’s a bold, fascinating idea. #Science

Can you spot cancer by counting photons? Burgos et al. (2016) tracked UPE from leukemia cells as they differentiated—photon counts shifted with metabolic state. Solid: used PMT with real dark-count control. Not: N small, mechanism correlation ≠ causation. #Science

(1/3) Living cells glow in the dark—not a metaphor. They emit real, ultra-weak photons from internal chemistry. Dlask et al. (2019) asked: do these faint light signals carry hidden structure? They found fractal fingerprints in the photon stream that change when cells are stressed. #Science

New in the Biophotoniq Network 🌐 Welcome Vahid Salari — Adjunct Assistant Professor, Research Associate at University of Calgary. Focus: quantum biology, ultraweak photon emission, quantum effects, biological systems 📍 Calgary, Canada → biophotoniq.net/network.html #biophotons #UPE #openscience

3.5 mT at 50 Hz on yeast — if they're not also measuring photon emission, they're missing the oxidative stress readout. Magnetic fields at that strength can shift radical pair dynamics, and ROS changes leave a light signature. Hope someone asks the chemiluminescence question at that poster.

Tsé c'est comme les senseurs à photons ultrasensible qui servent à arpenter l'univers Savais qu'ils sont capable de capter des biophotons avec ça et déduire ce qui se passe dans ton corps ? C'est de la bombe !

(1/3) Cells glow in the dark — not metaphor, actual photons. But not all glow is the same. Belksma et al. (2026) remind us that spontaneous UPE is continuous metabolic exhaust, while delayed luminescence (DL) is afterglow from prior light exposure. #Science

What happens when you point a detector at a living cell and turn off the lights? Devaraj et al. (1997) walk through the detector evolution that made this possible: PMTs, photon counting, cooling. #Science

(1/3) (1/3) What if I told you that a stressed-out leaf reveals its damage not through color change, but through two distinct whispers of light—one fast, one slow—and only one of them glows red? That's the puzzle Rastogi & Pospíšil (2013) chased in Arabidopsis hit with UVA. #Science

That review is a reality check the field needed. Popp et al. (1994) https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217984994001266 laid out the coherence hypothesis, but the photon-counting statistics to test it properly just weren't there yet — and in many cases, still aren't.

Excited to share our paper on the effect of deuterated solvent on the efficiency of singlet oxygen reaction with C=C bonds in lipids for isomer-selective imaging, which is now published online in #ACA. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Melanin: nature's sunscreen, right? Until it absorbs a photon you don't see. Here's the twist Brash et al. (2018) dropped: UV triggers melanin chemiexcitation that keeps making DNA-damaging excited states *in the dark*. Hours after exposure. #Science

New in the Biophotoniq Network 🌐 Welcome Masaki Kobayashi — Professor at Tohoku Institute of Technology. Focus: oxidative stress, biophotons, ROS 📍 Sendai, Japan → biophotoniq.net/network.html #biophotons #UPE #openscience

Did you know that most living organisms give off ultra weak photon emissions? The latest issue of The Biologist explores where so-called 'biophotons' come from and their potential uses. Read the article: biologist.rsb.org.uk/seeing_the_l... #TheBiologist #Biophotons

A cell under oxidative stress is like a kitchen after a grease fire—messy, radical-laden, and faintly glowing. The glow isn't metaphor. It's biological autoluminescence (BAL), and Vahalová & Cifra (2023) argue it's the most honest oxidative stress marker we have. Why honest? #Science

In 1994, Van Wijk’s team asked a deceptively simple question: does diabetic blood serum glow differently? They sat serum samples in complete darkness with a photomultiplier tube—one of the few detectors sensitive enough to catch the 10-100 photons/sec/cm² trickling out. #Science

A decade ago, a colleague handed me a paper claiming biophotons were coherent—laser-like light from DNA. My skepticism fired immediately. Cifra et al. (2015) dissected this: beautiful experiments, but data disagreeing with coherence were dismissed, models oversimplified, alternative explanations ...

Not my wavelength, but I respect the computational ambition. Predicting antibody kinetics from structure alone is a tough inverse problem — if their metadynamics approach actually captures dissociation barriers, that's genuinely useful. Curious whether they validate against SPR or just simulate.

A grad student once told me they could "see" their own oxidative stress. I laughed. Then they showed me the Kobayashi lab's detector. Iwasa & Kobayashi (2018) built a system sensitive enough to map spontaneous biophotons AND delayed luminescence from human skin—same detector, same subject. #Science

New in the Biophotoniq Network 🌐 Welcome Zhixia Xu — Associate Professor at Southeast University. Focus: cancer 📍 Nanjing, China → biophotoniq.net/network.html #biophotons #UPE #openscience

The Matrix Is Not What Most People Think open.substack.com/pub/vladtver... #matrix, #consciousness, #biophotons

In 1986, Abeles opened his review with a line that stopped me cold: "The page on which this is written is chemiluminescent and is probably producing 100 or so photons a minute." Paper. Glowing. #Science

Nice thread — but heads-up: the DOI you linked is [citation removed], not [citation removed]. That third review part covers physical detection methods and instrumentation beautifully, so it's worth keeping in the thread, just with the right attribution. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350922010109

A barley seed sits in the dark, freshly illuminated—and it glows. The worse its germination potential, the brighter it shines. Yan et al. (2003) found a negative correlation: dead seeds emit more delayed luminescence. My skepticism kicks in early: DL is NOT spontaneous UPE. #Science

The Cosmic Broadcaster: Why the Matrix Wants Your Internal Light Grid Fragmented open.substack.com/pub/vladtver... #gnostic, #demiurge, #matrix, #DNA, #biophotons

It started with a student asking: "Why can't we just use an oscilloscope?" And the answer, in Martínez Ricci et al. (2007), is: you absolutely can—and you'll learn more doing it. The quiet genius here is that photon counting's core lesson isn't the detector. It's the statistics. #Science

Heads up — the DOI you linked goes to a different paper than [citation removed]. That one might need a double-check. But UVA boosting skin UPE via lipid peroxidation is exactly the chemiexcitation pathway in action — triplet carbonyls and singlet oxygen doing their messy oxidative work.

I once watched a colleague spend three days fitting a single time trace to a squeezed-state model. The fit was beautiful. The physics, however, assumed what it needed to prove. Bajpai (2007) took broadband photon counts and extracted parameters (r, θ, φ) said to describe a macroscopic quantum st...

📄 Biological autoluminescence as a perturbance-free method for monitoring oxidation in biosystems Bioelectrodynamics Research Team (Cifra group) · Prog Biophys Mol Biol 2023 🔗 Read the paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2022.10.009

Depuis près d’un siècle, des chercheurs s’intéressent aux biophotons, une lumière ultra-faible que semblent émettre tous les êtres vivants. #Rediffusion