diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4c39047..797fbaa 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "scdataloader"
-version = "1.0.3"
+version = "1.0.5"
 description = "a dataloader for single cell data in lamindb"
 authors = ["jkobject"]
 license = "GPL3"
diff --git a/scdataloader/utils.py b/scdataloader/utils.py
index 2250c2e..74de4b2 100644
--- a/scdataloader/utils.py
+++ b/scdataloader/utils.py
@@ -372,7 +372,8 @@ def load_genes(organisms: Union[str, list] = "NCBITaxon:9606"):  # "NCBITaxon:10
         organismdf.append(genesdf)
     organismdf = pd.concat(organismdf)
     organismdf.drop(
-        columns=["source_id", "run_id", "created_by_id", "updated_at"], inplace=True
+        columns=["source_id", "run_id", "created_by_id", "updated_at", "stable_id"],
+        inplace=True,
     )
     return organismdf
 
@@ -528,6 +529,7 @@ def length_normalize(adata: AnnData, gene_lengths: list):
     adata.X = csr_matrix((adata.X.T / gene_lengths).T)
     return adata
 
+
 def translate(
     val: Union[str, list, set, Counter, dict], t: str = "cell_type_ontology_term_id"
 ):