Bacteria Behaviour Can Shed Light On How Financial Markets Work 91
notscientific writes "Bacteria invest in proteins in an attempt to reduce stress or increase energy intake, while humans invest in cash. In both cases, better tradeoffs pay off. The similarities in tradeoffs faced by both bacteria and humans during investment are actually quite similar. Now, using synthetic biology, a group of scientists has shown that the outcomes of investment decisions in bacteria can be precisely defined, alluding to the idea that human investment activities, such as financial markets, can be thoroughly understood as well, and even modelled."
Too obvious. (Score:5, Funny)
What's insightful about realizing that one can use disease-causing parasites to model disease-causing parasites?
Oh. Well, this explains a great deal. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So bacteria have a form of high frequency tradi (Score:4, Funny)