摘要
复活节岛很可能是世界上最偏远的、且人迹最为罕至的岛屿,它因为令人难以忘怀的不朽石雕人面像而举世闻名。这座岛屿是南太平洋上已经消失的石像雕刻民族的神秘家园。最新的研究表明,一种来源于复活节岛上的药物,可能成为第一种延缓人类衰老的物质。
Probably the world's most remote and least-visited inhabited island, Easter Island is globally famous for its haunting monumental stone statues of human faces. A drug originating on Easter Island, the mysterious South Pacific home of a lost statue-building people, may become the first substance to slow clown human ageing, new research indicates. Rapamycin, a pharmacological product used to prevent rejection in organ transplants,