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PHASE TRANSITIONS AND SYMMETRY. "The common feature of phase transitions is spontaneous symmetry breaking." https://lnkd.in/e2CfY5q View in LinkedIn

TASTE RECEPTOR DEFENDS LUNGS. "The human respiratory system is directly exposed to a continual stream of toxins and microbial pathogens. The oral bitter taste receptor, T2R38, which is key for avoiding toxic or poisonous foods, turns out to also be key in defending the human upper airway from microbial pathogens." https://lnkd.in/eEVGp7V View in LinkedIn

PHASE CHANGES. "The effects of symmetry breaking...phase changes...ice melts to water, or water boils to steam. A phase change is the dramatic change in the internal order of a substance." https://lnkd.in/exUESr6 View in LinkedIn

TASTE RECEPTORS AND ORAL HEALTH. "Specific alleles of the T2R38 bitter taste receptor have also been associated with a reduced risk for caries...it is tempting to suggest a mechanistic relationship between bitter taste and antimicrobial defense in the oral cavity." https://lnkd.in/egd9rZS View in LinkedIn

"SYMMETRY BREAKING is equally important in the world of particle physics. It is really the cornerstone concept out of which the theory of super symmetry was born. Physicists believe that just after the Big Bang, all the forces of nature were identical, and all of the elemental particles were the same. But within an instant, symmetry was broken," creating fragmented forces and particles. https://lnkd.in/bHkyxBh View in LinkedIn

BILATERAL CROSSCHAT. "The host may also use chemical sensing to monitor microbial activity...a direct link between secreted bacterial products and chemosensory activation mechanisms for mucosal clearance." At the same time salivary and gingival antibodies play a key role in microbial colonization in the mouth. https://lnkd.in/egd9rZS View in LinkedIn

SYMMETRY BREAKING AND LACK OF CONSTRAINTS. "The spectrum of electromechanical phenomena on the molecular and nanoscale levels is much richer than in the macroscopic systems owing to symmetry breaking at surfaces and interfaces, the lack of constraints imposed by the lattice in low-dimensional and soft condensed-matter systems, and the absence of macroscopic averaging." https://lnkd.in/efupmXS View in LinkedIn

"SYMMETRY BREAKING in physics describes a phenomenon where (infinitesimally) small fluctuations acting on a system which is crossing a critical point decide the system's fate, by determining which branch of a bifurcation is taken...such transitions usually bring the system from a symmetric but disorderly state into one or more definite states. Symmetry breaking is supposed to play a major role in pattern formation." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry_breaking View in LinkedIn

SECRET OF TEXTURE. "The secret of nature is symmetry, but much of the texture of the world is due to symmetry breaking." http://www.pnas.org/content/93/25/14256.full View in LinkedIn

MEANING OF SYMMETRY. "Einstein's great advance in 1905 was to put symmetry first, to regard symmetry as the primary feature of nature that constrains the allowable dynamic laws. With the development of quantum mechanics in the 1920s symmetry came to play an even more fundamental role." https://lnkd.in/b-9TDnm View in LinkedIn