Protein-protein interactions are essential to cellular mechanisms at all levels in biologically responsive systems. These interactions occur extracellularly and include ligand-receptor interactions, cell adhesion, antigen recognition, and virus-host recognition. Intracellular protein-protein interactions occur in the formation of multi-protein complexes, during the assembly of cytoskeletal elem...

An important aspect of human biology is our ability to acclimatize to essentially every environment on earth: our adaptability. A second aspect is evolutionary, how we got the ability to do that: our adaptation. Both adaptability and adaptation have a genetic component, in the first case concerning the genetic mechanisms that enable people to respond to different environmental conditions and, i...

Current accounts of spatial cognition and human-object interaction suggest that the representation of peripersonal space depends on an action-specific system that remaps its representation according to action requirements. Here we demonstrate that this mechanism is sensitive to knowledge about properties of objects. In two experiments we explored the interaction between physical distance and ob...