🚨🚨A recent thesis about to be published by Ifigeneia Kalampouka, PhD @mitogenia - (worth following BTW) on biophotons and cellular senescence found that isolated senescent mitochondria did two very interesting things: 1) They directly emitted measurable ultraweak photons, and 2) Mitochondria in a separate, chemically isolated chamber showed different oxygen-consumption behavior when unshielded vs shielded. i.e. mitochondria talked to each other in different test tubes! That does NOT prove, in a final sense, that mitochondria are “communicating with light.” - yet. But it does show something real and intriguing: Stressed/senescent mitochondria appear to emit ultraweak light, and other physically isolated mitochondria behave differently when exposed to a non-chemical signal that is consistent with a light-based mechanism. This is early bench science, not bedside medicine. Still, if this holds up, it could open an entirely new way of thinking about mitochondrial signaling, oxidative stress, aging, and maybe even photobiomodulation. Really fascinating work. There's also a whole other section where NIR is used doi.org/10.34737/wy80y