Monday, August 19, 2013

Bacterial tradeoffs

Bacterial evolution offers clues to tradeoffs in financial investments

August 14, 2013
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Bacteria have the potential to teach valuable investment lessons (credit: University of Exeter)
Scientists have found that bacteria have the potential to teach valuable investment lessons.
The research, published in the journal Ecology Letters, takes advantage of the fact that bacteria, like humans, have limited resources and are constantly faced with investment decisions.
Bacteria though are successful with their investments and have colonized every inch of the surface of our planet.
The researchers, from the Universities of Exeter and Sydney, used mathematical models and lab-based synthetic biology, to predict bacterial investment crashes and boom-bust cycles./.../

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