{"title":"How microbes learn to predict the future","description":"<p>In a study published in <em>Genome Biology and Evolution<\/em>, ISB researchers designed an experiment to evolve novel adaptive prediction capability in yeast by repetitively exposing it to caffeine, followed by a toxin. Remarkably, the yeast cells learned the structure of this novel environmental pattern within as few as 50 generations to use caffeine as a cue for anticipating and mitigating lethal effects of the toxin.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/systemsbiology.org\/news\/2017\/07\/28\/adaptive-prediction-yeast\/"}