Week 15 英语专业阅读教程.pptVIP

Lead-in: Human Cloning in Fiction Movies Presentations: Group 3: Frankenstein Group 4: Brave New World Group 5: Movies about Cloning Lead-in: Human Cloning in Fiction Movies Reading assignment: Read the novel Frankenstein within a month and hand in a reading report at the end of this semester. Your reading reports will be graded and considered in your final assessment. Lead-in: Human Cloning in Reality Maniacs of human cloning: A controversial doctor has claimed to have cloned human embryos and transferred them to four women prepared to give birth to the first cloned babies. Fertility specialist Panayiotis Zavos sensationally broke the sacred taboo of human individuality by cloning 14 embryos and placing 11 of them into the wombs of four women, he told The Independent. The process, which is illegal in Britain and many other countries, was probably carried out in a secret laboratory in the Middle East, where cloning is not banned. Lead-in: Human Cloning in Reality Maniacs of human cloning: A controversial Italian doctor known for his work allowing post-menopausal women to have children has claimed in an interview to have cloned three babies who are now living in eastern Europe. I helped give birth to three children with the human cloning technique, Severino Antinori, a prominent gynaecologist, told Oggi weekly in an interview to appear Wednesday. It involved two boys and a girl who are nine years old today. They were born healthy and they are in excellent health now. Lead-in: Human Cloning in Reality Maniacs of human cloning: Clonaid announced birth of “first human clone” on December 26th 2002. Eve was born after being created by Clonaid using a technique similar to that used to clone Dolly the sheep. Clonaid said they had four other mothers expecting to give birth to clones soon and announced a second birth to a Dutch lesbian woman early in January 2003 and a third to a Japanese couple who cloned their dead son killed in an accident, plus two others in late Janua