In biomedical research, the concept of chimeras represents a significant advancement that may transform our understanding of human biology. A chimera, defined as an organism with cells originating ...

Depending on your point of view, the creation of an embryo that is part-human and part-monkey is either a great opportunity for medical experts to create organs and tissues for human transplantation; ...

Our understanding of the human body has sky-rocketed in recent decades, opening doors for everything from brain-controlled prosthetics to world-changing mRNA vaccines. But there are still some secrets ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. “Has science gone too far?” has become something of a meme of late. People post the ...

Human gametes develop within the body of the resultant organism; It contains a human brain or a brain derived wholly or predominantly from human neural tissues; or It exhibits human facial features or ...

In Greek mythology, a chimera is a monstrous scramble of a lion, goat, and a serpent. In genetics, the term means something only slightly more down-to-earth: an organism with cells from at least two ...

An article published April 15 in the journal Cell described how scientists took a blastocyst from a macaque and added human cells. A human-monkey chimeric blastocyst. Credit: Weizhi Ji/Kunming ...

Though they consulted bioethicists while completing their work, researchers have raised eyebrows by creating monkey-human chimeric embryos by injecting human stem cells into primate embryos. These ...

A few weeks ago, scientists reported successfully growing human cells in monkey embryos, paving the way for creating live human–monkey chimeras. For many, this could open the door to great medical ...

The Senate narrowly rejected an amendment geared toward criminalizing participation in research that created certain chimeras, or human-animal hybrids, in expectation that the federal government could ...

The Endless Frontiers Act, a comprehensive bill sponsored by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., passed the Senate on Friday, leading some critics to point to a little-noticed move that could open a ...

Researchers in the United States and China announced in April that they had successfully injected human cells into a monkey embryo for the first time. These chimeras, organisms that have multiple sets ...