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Living cells give off a light far too faint to see. It comes from chemical reactions, mostly oxidation, and a single-photon detector counts it one photon at a time. PhosNexus is a non-profit institute for biophotonics and bioelectromagnetics, now being founded in Prague. It will connect the people who study, measure and teach this light.
01 · What we do
These are our plans for the first years, starting in 2027. Each line feeds the others. Joint measurements become teaching material, and teaching brings new people into the network.
Open courses, lessons and materials for students and teachers, from single-photon detectors to the oxidative chemistry behind the light. A portable photon-counting kit will bring live measurements to schools, science festivals and the International Day of Light on 16 May.
We will connect the laboratories and teachers who work with biological light, starting with the Biophotoniq Network: shared protocols, meetings, training and interlaboratory comparisons.
Research done together and in the open. The Biophoton Signal Atlas will be an open database of ultraweak photon emission and chemiluminescence signals, with reference measurements and data that follow the FAIR principles.
02 · Principles
These principles come from our founding deed, not only from this page.
We do not spread claims that measurement does not support, and we make no health claims. The word “biophoton” attracts a lot of those.
We publish our methods, protocols and reference data openly, so that anyone can reuse and test them.
Our results are available to everyone on the same published terms. No one connected to the institute gets preferential access.
Any surplus goes back into the purpose. The institute has no owners and no shares.
03 · About
The name joins Greek phōs, light, and Latin nexus, connection.
PhosNexus is being set up as a legal body: a non-profit legal person under Czech law. Once registered, it can receive grants, employ people, look after shared data and sign agreements with schools and partners.
The Biophotoniq Network is an informal collaboration of laboratories, with no legal person of its own. PhosNexus will act for it where a legal body is needed, but its work goes beyond the network. Its results and services are open to everyone on the same published terms, members of the network or not.
04 · Contact