1 Department of Neurobiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
2 FM Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: michael.crickmore@childrens.harvard.edu.
3 Department of Neurobiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: dragana_rogulja@hms.harvard.edu.
Food deprivation suppresses sleep, presumably to increase time available for foraging. A new study identifies a conserved gene, Translin, as a modulator of sleep in response to metabolic changes.