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Note: This is not a word-for-word transcript Sophie Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English. I'm Sophie… Neil And I'm Neil. I was watching the news the other day, Sophie. Sophie Learn anything interesting? Neil Yes, actually. UK scientists have been authorised by the government to genetically modify human embryos for research. What they can't do though is implant modified embryos into women. They talked a lot about…

n where embryos are genetically enhanced – or improved – to be more intelligent or physically stronger, for example. Neil And this will lead to more discrimination in the world – which means treating some people less fairly than others… Sophie …which is something that science fiction has been predicting for many years. It's that dystopian society we were discussing earlier, Neil! Which science fiction film anticipa…

gene editing the ability to modify DNA manipulate modify or control DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) a substance in the cells of animals and plants that contains genetic information gene a part of the DNA in a cell that controls the growth and behaviour of a living thing and is passed on from its parents dystopian an imaginary society where people are unhappy and afraid scanning searching carefully snip cut faulty …

Neil and Sophie talk about the hopes and risks of gene editing. Is it going to cure diseases? Or be used to create designer babies? And Neil wonders how many errors he might have in his genetic code. This week's question Which science fiction film anticipates gene editing in a dystopian society where humans are genetically engineered? Is it… a) Robocop b) Gattaca c) Blade Runner You can hear the right answer at…

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Note: This is not a word-for-word transcript Neil Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English. I'm Neil… Sophie And I'm Sophie… Neil Sophie, I can't get out of my head what Mark Zuckerberg, you know, the guy who created Facebook, said recently. Sophie Oh, I know, he pledged – or made a serious promise – to give away 99% of his shares in Facebook over the course of his lifetime. The shares are currently worth around $45…

te student from Oxford University talking about how he makes a difference. INSERT Toby Ord, moral philosopher, Oxford University I worked out that over my life I'd be able to earn about £1.5m and that I could maintain my current standard of living as a graduate student and still donate about £1m of that. Sophie So Toby actually gives away any money that he earns above £18,000 a year. He feels that he doesn't need m…

pledged made a serious promise philanthropy helping others, especially by giving large amounts of money to good causes well off wealthy human potential people's ability to develop or achieve things equality (in this context) a situation where all children are equal with the same rights and opportunities as each other unethical morally wrong ruthless cruel average Joe ordinary person donating giving a tidy su…