Idk if blackbody radiation counts as bioluminescence
Comment on bioluminescence
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Technically you are, just at a frequency your eyes aren’t tuned to see.
Apparently humans actually have zebra stripes when illuminated under the right circumstances.
huginn@feddit.it 8 months ago
Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Technically humans are also photosynthetic just not in a way that’s useful to make food.
Mikufan@ani.social 8 months ago
I mean vitamin D is kinda necessary for us to live…
So in a way we are…
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Uh yeah, no.
Bioluminescense relies on pigments and specific proteins involved to convert energy to a visible wavelength of light. This isn’t the same as the arbitrary calories we burn to maintain homeostasis or the resulting black body radiation.
That being said, gene therapy really has come a long way and bioluminescense is pretty well understood to the point of being an undergrad lab in intro bio, so really, there is nothing stopping you from GMO’ing yourself to have glowing pigments.
Also, if you making the claim we’ve got zebra stripes under some conditions, please explain those conditions.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
If different types of cells looked different, we would have zebra stripes. I think only geneticly female people would though, for the same reason only geneticly female cats can be calico.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If different types of cells looked different, we would have zebra stripes.
Ok. Show me that.
nxdefiant@startrek.website 8 months ago
An article:
sciencealert.com/you-can-t-see-it-but-humans-actu…
The paper:
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/jour…
It’s pretty old, no idea about folowups
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 8 months ago
What’s concerning is figuring out the evolutionary advantage of being able to hide from predators who have eyes 1000x more sensitive to light than anything on Earth…
Mikufan@ani.social 8 months ago
Maybe an Artifact of evolution. That’s what happens when you dont Defragment your DNA every now and then!
owen@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Yeah in the blacklight at the furry con
idunnololz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nuh uh. I’m a Scalie.