# rmx-s-cell-signals: susceptibility to misperception: sensory illusion to self-destruct

<< (..) even brainless single-celled yeast have sensory biases that can be hacked by a carefully engineered illusion >>

<< (..) yeast cells falsely perceive a specifically timed pattern of stress – caused by alternating between low and mildly increased sodium levels – as a massive, continuously increasing ramp of stress. In response, the microbes end up over-responding and killing themselves >>

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2015/11/258466/sensory-illusion-causes-cells-self-destruct

Amir Mitchell, Ping Wei, and Wendell A. Lim. Oscillatory stress stimulation uncovers an Achilles’ heel of the yeast MAPK signaling network. Science Express, November 2015
Science DOI: 10.1126/science.aab0892

http://m.sciencemag.org/content/early/2015/11/18/science.aab0892