Ribosomes Need Straight A’s to Sleep

May 4, 2017

Sam and Susan’s preview in Cell was published today! Check it out: 

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.04.019

Ribosomes Need Straight A’s to Sleep

Like falling asleep and waking up, many biological processes in mammals cycle in a diurnal fashion. Now, Sinturel et al. demonstrate that diurnal size changes in the liver require eating during a mouse’s normal awake time and that these size changes are controlled by a nuclear mechanism that modulates ribosome production.