{"id":241910,"date":"2026-07-30T20:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/all-living-things-emit-a-faint-glow-could-this-light-be-useful"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:40:19","slug":"all-living-things-emit-a-faint-glow-could-this-light-be-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/all-living-things-emit-a-faint-glow-could-this-light-be-useful","title":{"rendered":"All living things emit a faint glow. Could this light be useful?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/all-living-things-emit-a-faint-glow-could-this-light-be-useful2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interesting report on the phenomenon by which cells and organisms glow very faintly, primarily due to energy transitions during aerobic respiration. Speculation on biological functions and future applications are covered.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ultra-weak \u2018biophotons\u2019 might be used to diagnose disease, or could even represent a new signalling mechanism in cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting report on the phenomenon by which cells and organisms glow very faintly, primarily due to energy transitions during aerobic respiration. Speculation on biological functions and future applications are covered. Ultra-weak \u2018biophotons\u2019 might be used to diagnose disease, or could even represent a new signalling mechanism in cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}