A: so, you finally got your doctorate1 in genetics. Well done!
B: thanks. Now, I have to find a job.
A: what are you thinking of doing?
B: I’d like to conduct some scientific research into genes2. It would be wonderful to make a medical breakthrough.
A: there must be several private companies that are interested in employing someone like you. You could do some research for a university. There’s a lot of discussion about genetics nowadays. Someone with you qualifications is bound to be in demand.
B: many companies and universities investing resources in genetics, because there are so many possibilities. Few people know where next discoveries will be made.
A: well, I hope scientists don’t decode3 to make a clone of me in the future! I wouldn’t like to be the subject of an experiment.
Intermediate
A; what are you reading about in that science magazine?
B: there are several interesting articles on recent scientific breakthroughs. I just finished reading one about cloning.
A: I’m not sure I like the idea of that. I don’t want people copying me or other people. It could be very confusing.
B; according to the article, you have no real need to worry. Research nowadays is foussing on cloning parts of a human body to replace damaged or lost parts, not on recreating a whole human.
A: in the future, that could be possible.
B: in this article, scientists say that if you took the genes from someone and tried to create a copy of a person, there’s no guarantee that the copy would look or act like the original!
A; really? What else have you discovered?
B: I read about how scientists are using material from plants and animals to create new medicines. For example, an animal be immune to disease that affects human. So, scientists find out why it’s immune and recreate that immunity4 for human.
A; that’s great, because it uses natural materials rather than ones that scientists make themselves. I prefer natural remedies to man-made ones.
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