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Subido el 23 de noviembre de 2020 por M. Mercedes S.

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Unit 3. Reading. Page 37. 00:00:05
A Healthier Tomorrow 00:00:10
From the Stone Age to today's Information Age, 00:00:12
we humans have used the materials around us to revolutionise our world. 00:00:17
However, some say that we are about to enter a new age. 00:00:22
According to experts, the new and defining element of our next stage of development 00:00:28
will be something that comes from inside us, our genes. 00:00:33
This, they say, is the dawn of the genetic age. 00:00:39
So, what will the key technologies of the genetic age be? 00:00:43
If you only paid attention to headline-grabbing stories in the media, 00:00:48
you might believe that our genetic future seems a bit trivial. 00:00:53
For example, it was recently reported that a Korean company, 00:00:58
R-N-L-B-I-O, had been commissioned to clone someone's dog. 00:01:02
Although it costs, at current prices, 87,000 euros to have your pet cloned, 00:01:08
the company is expecting good business once the technology becomes cheaper. 00:01:14
Also, a major European football club has admitted that it is looking for a genetic test 00:01:20
to find the crack footballers of tomorrow. 00:01:26
Thanks to a discovery made by researchers at the European University in Madrid, young players may, in the near future, be routinely tested for a speed gene. 00:01:29
The idea is that if this gene is found to be part of their genetic code, they could have a natural predisposition to success on the pitch and, therefore, be sold to other teams for megabucks. 00:01:41
Despite the silly stories making the front pages of the press, it is much more likely that the genetic age will be characterized by a revolution in health care. 00:01:56
The human genome was first decoded just a few years ago, but already our knowledge about how genetics affects our health is transforming the way diseases are understood, treated and predicted. 00:02:08
Tests are already available to show who is most at risk from over 1,300 diseases, including cancer, diabetes and heart disease 00:02:22
People with a family history of certain diseases can be screened to see if they are at risk 00:02:34
and be given appropriate drugs or treatment as early as possible 00:02:41
Unfortunately, finding the genes that cause illness does not mean that a disease can be 00:02:45
prevented yet. At the moment, most drugs produced by pharmaceutical companies are treatments 00:02:52
for the symptoms of ill health. The challenge for the future will be to produce genetic 00:02:58
cures. The first of these is expected to be produced within a few years and will help 00:03:04
to eradicate a form of blindness in old people. 00:03:10
So the next time genetics hits the headlines, let's hope it's about a medical discovery 00:03:15
that makes incurable disease preventable, rather than sports stars or cloned pets. 00:03:20
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