I've long been a big fan of Greek mythology and all the wondrous ... Belmonte and his team at the Salk Institute created a human-monkey chimera embryo. It took four years, and the embryo ...

Scientists do not intend to actually create living animal-human hybrids. [Such beings are often referred to as chimeras after a creature in Greek mythology which had a lion's head, a goat's body ...

“Human pluripotent stem cells harbor the potential to provide an inexhaustible supply of donor cells or tissues or organs for transplantation,” Wu wrote in an email. In Greek mythology, the chimera ...

The team wants to develop chimeras—organisms composed of cells from two or more species—capable of growing human organs. Similar experiments using pig or sheep embryos have faced technical challenges, ...