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From the Ted Talk by Francis Collins: We need better drugs -- now

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Well that was exciting, but would it actually work in a real human being? This has led, in the space of only four years from the time the gene was discovered to the start of a clinical trial, to a test of that very cmponoud. And the kids that you see here all volunteered to be part of this, 28 of them, and you can see as soon as the picture comes up that they are in fact a remarkable gorup of young people all afflicted by this disease, all looking quite similar to each other. And instead of telling you more about it, I'm going to invite one of them, Sam Berns from Boston, who's here this morning, to come up on the satge and tell us about his experience as a child affected with progeria. Sam is 15 yaers old. His parents, Scott Berns and lesile godron, both piancshyis, are here with us this morning as well. Sam, please have a seat.

Open Cloze


Well that was exciting, but would it actually work in a real human being? This has led, in the space of only four years from the time the gene was discovered to the start of a clinical trial, to a test of that very ________. And the kids that you see here all volunteered to be part of this, 28 of them, and you can see as soon as the picture comes up that they are in fact a remarkable _____ of young people all afflicted by this disease, all looking quite similar to each other. And instead of telling you more about it, I'm going to invite one of them, Sam Berns from Boston, who's here this morning, to come up on the _____ and tell us about his experience as a child affected with progeria. Sam is 15 _____ old. His parents, Scott Berns and ______ ______, both __________, are here with us this morning as well. Sam, please have a seat.

Solution


  1. years
  2. physicians
  3. leslie
  4. compound
  5. gordon
  6. stage
  7. group

Original Text


Well that was exciting, but would it actually work in a real human being? This has led, in the space of only four years from the time the gene was discovered to the start of a clinical trial, to a test of that very compound. And the kids that you see here all volunteered to be part of this, 28 of them, and you can see as soon as the picture comes up that they are in fact a remarkable group of young people all afflicted by this disease, all looking quite similar to each other. And instead of telling you more about it, I'm going to invite one of them, Sam Berns from Boston, who's here this morning, to come up on the stage and tell us about his experience as a child affected with progeria. Sam is 15 years old. His parents, Scott Berns and Leslie Gordon, both physicians, are here with us this morning as well. Sam, please have a seat.

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Important Words


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