What is a chimera? - New Scientist
Chimeric animals are often created during genetic engineering and CRISPR genome editing. Stem cells are modified outside the body and injected into early embryos. The resulting …
Could we merge biologically with the fungal network and live …
2024年6月19日 · In this week's Future Chronicles column, which explores an imagined history of future inventions, we visit a cult in 2080s Japan that engineered a way of becoming chimeric …
Chimeric birds could explain how brains get big - New Scientist
2012年8月6日 · None of the chimeric embryos hatched, however, perhaps because their hybrid brains could not trigger breathing. Chen says she will try to crack the hatching problem by …
Exclusive: Two pigs engineered to have monkey cells born in China
2019年12月6日 · More than 4000 embryos were implanted in sows. Ten piglets were born as a result, of which two were chimeras. All died within a week. In the chimeric piglets, multiple …
Human cells grown in monkey embryos raise ethical concerns
2021年4月15日 · The human-monkey chimeric embryos were monitored in the lab for 19 days before being destroyed. The team says the human stem cells “survived and integrated with …
The boy whose blood has no father - New Scientist
1995年10月7日 · IN THE closest thing to a human virgin birth that modern science has ever recorded, British geneticists last week described the remarkable case of a young boy whose …
New forms of animals made by fusing several comb jellies together
2024年12月3日 · These chimeric animals are more than just physically connected bits of different individuals, says Leonid Moroz at the University of Florida. Their nervous systems also fuse …
Half human, half beast? - New Scientist
2005年6月21日 · In real-life laboratories, mildly chimeric creatures have long been commonplace – mice and other animals with human immune systems, kidneys, skin, and muscle tissue, all …
Seven unsolved medical mysteries - New Scientist
2008年12月16日 · Chimeric people. Imagine going for genetic tests along with your children, only to find that you can’t possibly be their biological mother – despite the fact that you gave birth to …
Why it’s the aliens living inside you that create your sense of you
2020年12月9日 · Chimeric cells have been found to contribute to both good and bad health, for example promoting wound healing but also triggering autoimmune disease.