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30 November 2023
Postdoc Profile: Riley Galton
Q&A with Stowers Postdoc Riley Galton: "It was really important to me to find a place where I could do top-notch research in an open and collaborative environment."
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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
30 November 2023
Q&A with Stowers Postdoc Riley Galton: "It was really important to me to find a place where I could do top-notch research in an open and collaborative environment."
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In The News
29 November 2023
From KMBC, The Stowers Institute for Medical Research brings a mobile mammogram bus to its employees every year, ever since Dr. Heather Marshall was diagnosed with cancer seven years ago.
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In The News
29 November 2023
Penny Spence, Stowers Executive VP and CFO, was featured in the November 2023 issue of Ingrams as part of the publication's "We KC" series highlighting Kansas City's most prominent female executives.
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