Scientists at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Hong Kong have created a mouse with substituted genes ...

A chimera was a combination of goat, lion and snake. To modern science, it's an animal that combines components of two different species in one body. Chimeras themselves aren't really new.

Human-animal chimeras are especially useful for studying medical applications of stem cells, an approach that, inconveniently for the scientists involved, combines two controversial, emotionally ...

Human-animal chimeras could someday provide human organs for transplantation. But these part-human animals also raise serious ethical issues.

In Greek mythology, a chimera is a grotesque hybrid. But chimeras are not just tales. Here's how some scientists have been ...

Flights of fantasy have long envisioned animals with human traits. George Lucas' "Star Wars" entertained millions of movie fans with an iconic tavern scene where all manner of beastly aliens ...

But human-animal chimeras are different from such animals, because making a chimera involves placing human cells into animal embryos at very early stages of development, when the human cells could ...

The process creates human-animal chimeras, similar to those highlighted in science fiction, where humans take on animal-like features and animals take on human characteristics.

Chimeras, hybrids of human and animal DNA, are controversial, to say the least. Here's what you need to know.

On 5 August 2016, the web site The Real Strategy published an article about a proposal from the National Institutes of Health that was misleadingly titled "Crossbreeding Humans with Animals ...

We are, at minimum, several steps and a number of years away from being able to create fully grown human-animal chimeras. But worries over the ethics of chimera research have been with us since ...

Human-animal chimera research can only be acceptable by using “induced pluripotent stem cells” (derived from adult cells) under certain conditions, the National Catholic Bioethics Center ...