時(shí)差N小時(shí):人類接近長(zhǎng)壽的又一步

You know, when I watch futuristic sci-fi movies, Inoticeeveryone has a normal aging pattern.

我看未來(lái)派科幻電影的時(shí)候，發(fā)覺(jué)里面的人物年齡都是很正常的，就像我們普通人一樣，活不了特別長(zhǎng)。

You don't encounter people who just having been107 years old.

在這種電影里，你根本就不可能會(huì)看到一個(gè)活到一百多歲的人。

That's probably amistake.

我個(gè)人覺(jué)得這有問(wèn)題。

A mistake? Why?

有問(wèn)題?你又有何憑證?

Because science is giving us longer lifespans all the time.

因?yàn)榭茖W(xué)一直以來(lái)都致力于延長(zhǎng)人們壽命的研究。

Now, that sounds like science fiction!

這樣聽來(lái)倒真的像是科幻小說(shuō)了!

It's true.

這可是真的。

A study conducted by James Carey and his colleagues at the University of California,forexample, found a link between how long a mouse lives and its ovaries.

比如說(shuō)吧，加利佛利亞大學(xué)的James Carey和他的同事們進(jìn)行了一項(xiàng)研究，他們發(fā)現(xiàn)老鼠的壽命和它的卵巢有很大關(guān)聯(lián)。

Its ovaries? What do they have to do with the aging?

卵巢?卵巢和壽命會(huì)有什么關(guān)系啊?

The researchers removed the ovaries of one set of mice when they were a few weeks old.

研究人員準(zhǔn)備了三組老鼠。在老鼠幾星期大的時(shí)候，他們將一組老鼠的卵巢切除。

Those mice didn’t live as long as mice who still had their ovaries.

結(jié)果表明，被切除卵巢的一組老鼠沒(méi)有未被切除卵巢的一組老鼠長(zhǎng)壽。

Another group of mice had theirovaries removed but got young ones later.

另外還有一組老鼠被切除了卵巢，但后來(lái)又被植入了年輕的卵巢。

The mice with the young ovaries implanted into them lived forty percent longer than the oneswhokept their original ovaries, and sixty percent longer than the ones with no ovaries at all!

被植入年輕卵巢的一組老鼠比未被切除卵巢的一組老鼠壽命長(zhǎng)40%，比被切除卵巢的一組老鼠壽命整整長(zhǎng)了60%!

Yalza! Sixty percent longer?

啊!60%!?

Some chemical message is being sent from the ovaries to the rest of the body, telling itwhatstage of life it is in.

卵巢可以將某些化學(xué)信息傳送至身體的其他部分，生命究竟處于哪個(gè)階段。

By renewing their ovaries, the scientists were essentially able to set the clockback.

科學(xué)家們?cè)賹⒙殉仓踩肜鲜篌w內(nèi)，可以說(shuō)是讓時(shí)光倒流了。

So who wants mice to live longer?

誰(shuí)那么無(wú)聊，想要讓老鼠長(zhǎng)壽啊?

Mice are just test.

老鼠只是試驗(yàn)品。

If we could understand how the body tells itself to age, maybe we couldmake other specieslive longer…like people.

如果說(shuō)我們能搞清楚老鼠的身體是怎樣來(lái)發(fā)送有關(guān)年齡的信息的，有可能，我們就能使其他物種長(zhǎng)壽些…比如，人類!