of medicine T is unit looks at some aspects of the future of medicine and provides an opportunity to revise many of the concepts and vocabulary items already used in the book. It contains some short reading texts on aspects of the future of medicine, a longer reading text which examines important developments in genomics and extracts from a report on research into the participation of ethnic- minority groups in clinical trials. Some new vocabulary is introduced, particularly in relation to nanotechnology and genetics, but much of it follows on naturally from earlier units.
Language skills • reading and writing
Topics
• new technology in medicine • microbiology and genetic research • ethnic-minority representation in clinical trials
Vocabulary focus
• reporting verbs for quoting and paraphrasing • linking ideas in a text • referring to quantities and group sizes in a report
Skills focus
• referring to other people’s ideas in writing • writing a research report
Key vocabulary
base pair benefi t bioinformatics cell chromosome clinical trial correlate customize data processing DNA DNA sequencing donate dysfunction encode epigenetics ethnic minority gene genomics goal human genome inheritance microbiome molecular mutation nanotechnology objective pandemic participant pathogen perception pharmacogenomics societal stem cell stigma survey (n and v) variation
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