Aquaphotomics

Abstract

The concept of Aquaphotomics1 has been presented for the first time in 2005 at the International Conference of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) held in New Zealand. It was inspired by the finding that the light absorbance of milk at specific water absorbance bands curved respective characteristic spectral patterns of milk from healthy and diseased animals. Further on, biological systems, from DNA water solutions, cells, plants, animals to humans have been non-invasively analysed with NIRS under various perturbations and it was proven that specific water spectral patterns mirror the system’s chemical and physical state.