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16 May 2025
#BioBasics: What is a ribosome?
Learn the biological basics of ribosomes—the molecular machines that build life-sustaining proteins—and why Stowers scientists are studying them.
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KANSAS CITY, MO—Understanding how cavefish have adapted to their extreme environments and how their metabolism is different from surface fish may be relevant for understanding metabolism-related conditions in humans. Stowers Assistant Investigator Nicolas Rohner, PhD, and colleagues at Stowers and Harvard Medical School recently published findings in Nature that suggest how cavefish have acquired biological mechanisms to compensate for detrimental effects of high blood sugar levels, which are characteristic of some human metabolic disorders such as diabetes. Read more about these results and their implications for human health in the links below.
Blind and hungry cavefish reveal survival secrets in their genes
Nature Research Highlight, a general audience summary
Mexican cavefish
Nature Podcast including an interview with Nicolas Rohner
The healthy diabetic cavefish conundrum
Nature News and Views, a research summary for non-specialists
Sweet Surprise
Press Release
Insulin resistance in cavefish as an adaptation to a nutrient-limited environment
Nature Letter, the scientific research article
Sugar, Sugar. Why cavefish develop symptoms of diabetes but are not sick
Behind the Paper from Nature Ecology & Evolution
Rohner Lab
Lab website with more cavefish research
News
16 May 2025
Learn the biological basics of ribosomes—the molecular machines that build life-sustaining proteins—and why Stowers scientists are studying them.
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Press Release
15 May 2025
Arvind Pillai, Ph.D., from the University of Washington, and Friederike Benning, Ph.D., from Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital, will join the Institute in Fall 2025
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News
09 May 2025
"For me, joining the Stowers Institute was a chance for me and my team to follow any research idea we’re curious about."
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