"There are many ways our parents can 'tell' us things, " said Rando.

“看来我们的父母有很多方法‘告诉’我们一些信息，”兰多说道。

Oliver Rando of the University of Massachusetts and his colleagues have now looked at another metabolically crucial organ, the liver, and found a similar effect.

目前，马萨诸塞大学的Oliver Rando和同事对重要的新陈代谢器官，肝脏，做了另一项试验，发现具有相似的结果。