Stick it to proteins

Membrane proteins stick around

You wouldn't call it a long-term relationship, but the interaction between proteins and certain membrane lipids is not just a one-millisecond stand. As Hammond et al. discovered, the proteins remain attached to the lipids longer than researchers expected. The fi ndings explain how these lipids localize their effects. By temporarily hooking up with various proteins, inositol lipids in the plasma...

Asexuality: The Insects that Stick With It

One hope of trying to understand why sex is so powerful and prevalent a mode of reproduction relies on the rare examples of animals that persist long-term without having sex. Now, several species of stick insects join that illustrious circle.

Peer-it: Stick-on solutions for networks of things

Why won’t it Stick? Positive Psychology and Positive Education

Following the launch of the positive psychology movement teachers and educators emerged as early adopters of this fledgling science. This approach was called positive education. It describes scientifically validated programs from positive psychology, taught in schools, that have an impact on student well-being. The growing body of evidence about the reach of positive psychology has formed a con...

Stick It! Articulated Tracking Using Spatial Rigid Object Priors

Articulated tracking of humans is a well-studied field, but most work has treated the humans as being independent of the environment. Recently, Kjellström et al. [1] showed how knowledge of interaction with a known rigid object provides constraints that lower the degrees of freedom in the model. While the phrased problem is interesting, the resulting algorithm is computationally too demanding t...