by Elio — I have the grat­ing feel­ing that the sub­ject of self-as­sem­bly of com­plex bi­o­log­i­cal struc­tures may not al­ways amass the level of re­spect it de­serves. I reckon that its im­por­tance is gen­er­ally ap­pre­ci­ated but, as top­ics go, it tends at times to be set aside. Yet, this is one of the most mag­nif­i­cent as­pects of bi­ol­ogy, one that...