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考特尼·谢泼德(Courtney Shephard)今年8岁,身高4英尺,她是医学上出现的一个奇迹。她出生时就存在着基因缺陷,身体内缺乏产生足够的生长激素的能力,长到成人时身高也不会到0.9米。但是在这五年内,她接受了在实验室中通过基因操纵所产生的生长激素,现在她有希望能够长到正常人的高度。位于旧金山的加利福尼亚大学医学分院的小儿内分泌学主席塞尔纳·卡普兰(Selna Kaplan)医生说,我的病人能够生长到1.5～1.8,差不多比他们以前所能达到的身高要高出2英尺,卡普兰医生是一位最先使用人
Courtney Shephard, 8 years old and 4 feet tall, is a miracle in medicine. She was born with genetic defects and lacked the ability to produce enough growth hormone in her body to reach an adult height of 0.9 meters. But within these five years, she accepted the growth hormone produced by genetic manipulation in the lab, and now she hopes to grow to normal height. Selna Kaplan, president of pediatric endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center in San Francisco, said my patients were able to grow to 1.5 to 1.8 feet, almost 2 feet above their previous attainable height, Kaplan doctor is one of the first user