Dr. Ying-Hue Lee discovered that starvation stress can enhance ribosome biogenesis and increase protein synthetic capacity

When encountering food deprivation stress, do organisms reduce their bioactivities to preserve energy during the stress period? or use the energy reserve to maintain their biosynthetic vitality, presumably preparing for the later fast recovery? Dr. Ying-Hue lee’s lab has found that, upon energy deprivation stress, cells have enhanced their capacities for both ribosome and protein syntheses.