Abstract:Biological systems such as intracellular metabolism are rationally regulated to maximize the cellular growth rate through evolution (1-4), whereas microeconomics investigates the behaviour of consumers assumed to rationally maximize their utility (5,6). Despite this analogy as optimization problems, the link between biology and economics has not been fully established (7,8). Here, we developed an exact mapping between the regulation of metabolism and the theory of consumer choice, thereby revealing the corresp… Show more
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