"Cheating yeast help group"

[Laurence Horn]

The above, which arrived today as the subject line of a posting from
the subscription I seem to have acquired in "The Scientist"
<http://www.the-scientist.com>, is my nominee for crash blossom of
the week.  (My first problem was reading it as a noun phrase--perhaps
announcing the availability of a support group for the errant
yeasties--when it was intended as a sentence; I also had some
problems with the parsing of "cheating yeast".)  The abstract makes
it all sort of clear:

"New results show that yeast populations grow better when a few
individuals cheat the system"

LH

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