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A compound that has been tested in mice, BMN-111,is useful in preventing the action of the achondroplasia gene.
有一種叫 BMN-111的化合物，經老鼠實驗，在抑制軟骨發育不全基因方面非常有效。
Achondroplasia is the most common form of dwarfism,
軟骨發育不全是侏儒癥最常見的表現形式，
and mice who have been given that substance and who have the achondroplasia gene,grow to full size.
有軟骨發育不全基因的小鼠攝取BMN-11以后，可以生長到正常體型。
Testing in humans is around the corner.
臨床試驗指日可待。
There are blood tests which are making progress that would pick up Down syndrome more clearly and earlier in pregnancies than ever before,
通過血液檢測唐氏綜合癥的技術也在進步可以在懷孕早期更明確地檢測出唐氏綜合癥，
making it easier and easier for people to eliminate those pregnancies,
使它更容易盡早終止，
or to terminate them.
唐氏綜合癥胎兒妊娠，
And so we have both social progress and medical progress.
我們的社會進步了，醫學也發展了。
And I believe in both of them.
我認同這兩方面的進步。
I believe the social progress is fantastic and meaningful and wonderful,
我相信社會的進步精彩且有意義，
and I think the same thing about the medical progress.
我認為醫學的進步也是如此。
But I think it's a tragedy when one of them doesn't see the other.
但我認為兩者互不理解著實可悲。
And when I see the way they're intersecting in conditions like the three I've just described,
當我看到他們交匯的方式像我剛才描述的三個病例，
I sometimes think it's like those moments in grand opera when the hero realizes he loves the heroine at the exact moment that she lies expiring on a divan.
我有時覺得這就像那些悲壯的歌劇，當英雄意識到他愛上女主角的時候就是女主角躺在長沙發上，奄奄一息。
We have to think about how we feel about cures altogether.
我們要全盤考量對于治愈的態度
And a lot of the time the question of parenthood is,
父母常常面對的問題是，
what do we validate in our children,
孩子在哪些方面值得肯定，
and what do we cure in them?
哪些方面需要治愈？
Jim Sinclair, a prominent autism activist, said,
有名的自閉癥專家，吉姆·辛克萊說，
When parents say 'I wish my child did not have autism,what they're really saying is 'I wish the child I have did not exist and I had a different, non-autistic child instead.
當父母說，我希望我的孩子沒有自閉癥，他們真正的意思是，我希望我的孩子并不存在，而希望有一個沒有自閉癥的孩子。
