一个疯狂的科学家,从琥珀中弄出来一个酵母细胞,这完全是个随机事件。
It's such a random thing. A yeast cell, captured in amber, found by a mad scientist.
十多年以来,科学家已经了解到,低卡路里的饮食能够延长很多生物的寿命,包括酵母菌、果蝇、猴子,可能还包括人类。
For more than a decade, scientists have known that a low-calorie diet lengthens the lives of many organisms, including yeast, fruit flies, monkeys, and perhaps humans.
同时,其他科学家已经在一组神经元中识别出了一个受体,这个受体能使果蝇闻到二氧化碳,二氧化碳是一顿美味的活酵母呈现的标志。
In the meantime, other scientists had identified a receptor in a group of neurons that enable fruit flies to smell carbon dioxide, which signals the presence of a good meal of tasty yeast.
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