Right prescription for boy genius
On his first day at his new school, 12-year-old student Sho Yano cut up a dead body.
He was a bit worried at first but soon got used to the idea and just got on with it. He thought it was pretty weird but he knew he would have to do it and his nerves quickly disappeared once he got started.
The thought of a young boy cutting up a body sounds like a scene from a nasty horror movie, but in Yano's case, the truth is very different.
Sho is a highly gifted boy with an IQ of more than 200 who is studying for a degree in medicine at Chicago University.
All the other students on his course are aged 22 to 40, but this does not worry Yano, who is the youngest trainee doctor in the world.
He was born in the American state of Oregon but grew up in southern California, where his father is in charge of the US branch of a Japanese shipping company.
From a very early age, his parents knew that Sho was gifted. He could play difficult piano music when he was three years old and at four he was composing his
own music.
Sho attended a private elementary school for a year and then a special school for gifted children for three years. But after that he was taught at home by his parents because they couldn't find a school that could stretch him.
By the age of eight, he had scored 1,500 out of 1,600 points in his SAT examinations and he started college when he was nine.
When he was three, a family friend gave Sho a human anatomy colouring book and the young boy became hooked on the mysteries of the human body.
He had always wanted to use his outstanding talents to help other people, so the choice of a medical career did not come as a surprise when Sho decided that was the way he wanted to go.
The only problem was finding a university that would accept someone so young as a student.
Sho was rejected by many of America's top universities because of his age. But the University of Chicago was supportive and offered him a scholarship and a place to study for a degree.
Sho and his mother relocated to Chicago and moved into a flat on the university campus. Sho raced through his first degree in three years, gaining top marks.
He was now ready to move onto the post-graduate degree course in medicine.
The professors at Chicago University have organised Sho's study programme so that he will not treat actual patients until he is 17.
Sick people might not be happy about a 12-year-old boy examining them.
Sho fully understands the position he is in because of his age but he is too busy working at medical school to let a little thing like that worry him.
He is doing what he likes best and he is happy. And that's all that matters.
