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USEFUL SIGNALS. Asymmetry in biological systems: "of paramount importance are the physical and biochemical amplification systems that can break symmetry by turning local and transient signals or even noise into stable and system-level asymmetries." Noise transformed to information. https://lnkd.in/eyHMM64 View in LinkedIn

NANO TO MACRO. "The origins of large-scale asymmetries in biology often lies in the asymmetries at a smaller scale." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2829966/ View in LinkedIn

COMPLEXITY. "PW Anderson, Nobel Laureate in physics, speculated that increasing levels of broken symmetry in many-bodied systems (systems of many interacting components) correlates with increasing complexity and functional specialization. This is certainly true in biology." https://lnkd.in/eyHMM64 View in LinkedIn

ASYMMETRY IN BIOLOGY. "Symmetry breaking is essential for cell movement, polarity, and developmental planning." https://lnkd.in/eyHMM64 View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL PHASE CHANGES. "In biological membranes, gel to liquid crystalline phase changes play a very critical role in physiological functioning of biomembranes." https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Phase_transition View in LinkedIn

KEY TO LIFE. "All qualitative cellular transitions and cellular decision-making are forms of symmetry breaking." https://lnkd.in/eyHMM64 View in LinkedIn

DOUBLE FACED ROMAN GOD JANUS. "The “Janus” term has been extended to describe the “dissymmetrical entities” in general, including macromolecules, supramolecular assemblies, nanoparticles, and colloidal particles. In synthesis, it requires the break of symmetry in the first place to create the “Janus” feature." Breaking symmetry to induce novel properties. https://chenggroup.uakron.edu/files/2015/05/11-yiwenli-ja202906m.pdf View in LinkedIn

ENDLESS COMPLEXITY. "Nature exhibits endless systems where complex patterns emerge from a-priori structureless objects. For example, leaves and flowers exhibit rippled shapes even though their “vein structure” seems perfectly symmetric. Leaves and flowers are examples of thin bodies that exhibit symmetry breaking even in the absence of external forces." https://lnkd.in/eZr_2gy View in LinkedIn

"SYMMETRY BREAKING is the process by which...uniformity is broken, or the number of points of view to invariance are reduced, to generate a more structured and improbable state." https://lnkd.in/eyHMM64 View in LinkedIn

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