COVID-19, Globalization, De-globalization and the Slime Mold's Lessons For Us All.

The world is struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic on a backdrop of conflicting globalization and de-globalization forces. A study of biology reveals that nature has been contending with such general issues for billions of years and has come up with broad strategies for their resolution. Copy and paste!

I-symmetry, the highest chiral point group, and the icosahedral structure of virus particles.

Small molecules exhibiting I-symmetry, the member of highest order amongst the five chiral point groups, have yet to be made. However, many virus particles such as the human adenovirus exhibit icosahedral symmetry. The handedness of the subunits being exchanged or permutated by symmetry operations in these supramolecular structures remain invariant since their protein constituents contain L-amino acids.