Bacteria Behaviour Can Shed Light On How Financial Markets Work

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 10, 2013 @07:22AM from the If-only-bacteria-had-agency-and-preferences dept.

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."

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Too obvious. by DoofusOfDeath · 2013-08-10 07:33 · 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. by bistromath007 · 2013-08-10 07:37 · Score: 2, Funny

High finance assholes see the rest of us as bacteria. Imagine that.
Re:So bacteria have a form of high frequency tradi by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · 2013-08-10 08:36 · Score: 3, Funny

Actually, high frequency trading is a cancer on the economy.