Protein Localization: Reach out and Touch the Forespore

Protein Localization: Reach out and Touch the Forespore

Bacterial proteins are typically sorted to subcellular regions with distinct physical characteristics that serve as cellular 'addresses', but many proteins are evidently sorted to specific areas that lack any apparent unique identity. Recent work in Bacillus subtilis suggests that such proteins may be localized by interacting with extracellular domains of proteins in an adjacent cellular compar...

Reach Out and Touch Someone: Anticipatory Sensorimotor Processes of Active Interpersonal Touch

Anticipating the sensorimotor consequences of an action for both self and other is fundamental for action coordination when individuals socially interact. Somatosensation constitutes an elementary component of social cognition and sensorimotor prediction, but its functions in active social behavior remain unclear. We hypothesized that the somatosensory system contributes to social haptic behavi...

Reach touch and teach

Reach Touch and Teach, published in 1970 by an American school teacher, describes an experiment in education at Richmond Union High, ‘an integrated school of three thousand in an industrial city across the bay from San Francisco’ (Borton, 1970, p.3). In many ways, it is a book of its time, filled with accounts of open learning experiments (complete with photographs), idealised statements of int...

Reach out and touch someone: controlling haptic manipulators near and far

Robotic devices now commonly interact physically with humans. Control issues surrounding this constraint are discussed and several approaches are considered. Examined in detail is the use of energetically passive designs, especially of the dissipative variety. Three different control algorithms are introduced and compared in their ability to guide a human user along a desired path in a rapid fa...

Reach out and touch someone: cellular phones health, safety and reasonable regulation.