Thom Parks Science publication widely covered in national and international media
Thomas Park, Professor of Biological Sciences, led an international team of researchers from UIC, the Max Delbrück Institute in Berlin and the University of Pretoria in South Africa in research that was published in Science The publication is titled “Fructose-driven glycolysis supports anoxia resistance in the naked mole-rat” (DOI: 10.1126/science.aab3896).
The research that found that naked mole-rats survive in zero-oxygen by metabolizing fructose like a plant.
The news was picked up by dozens of publications. Click on the names to read the articles. These include National Public Radio, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Gizmodo, BBC, Pop Science, New Scientist, Reuters, and AAAS.
Modified on July 18, 2018