Timeline for Can light function as a neurotransmitter?
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| Dec 19, 2018 at 13:10 | comment | added | Jam | Adding to the list of why it might be practically infeasible: it might be less energetically favourable for cells to create light than for them to keep using chemical transmitters. Also, it would require the ability of the organism to evolve a specialised way mechanism of bioluminescence, which might not confer any advantage to the organism. | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 17:52 | history | notice added | AliceD♦ | Needs citation | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 16:16 | comment | added | Alchimista | An emitted photon could go any direction, also go "inwards'. Indeed an optics would be needed. | |
| Dec 18, 2018 at 14:15 | review | First posts | |||
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| Dec 18, 2018 at 14:15 | history | answered | Joe Ruffatto | CC BY-SA 4.0 |