Borrowing ideas that were originally developed to study electronic circuits, two reports decipher how yeast reacts to changes in its environment by analysing the organism's responses to oscillating input signals.
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Ingolia, N., Weissman, J. Reverse engineering the cell. Nature 454, 1061–1062 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/4541059a
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