Dr. Redmond's implanted animals don't look or act differently, but they're now something called chimeras. It's a reference to ancient Greek mythology. A chimera was a combination of goat ...

John Loike serves as the interim director of bioethics at New York Medical College and as a professor of biology ... of human neurons incorporated into an animal’s brain that renders such a chimera ...

To many, human-animal chimeras--animals that contain human cells--sound like the stuff of nightmares. If you can picture a frog with a human head, a monkey with human vocal chords or a dog with ...

NIH will establish a new steering committee composed of experts in stem cells, chimeras and animal welfare to provide ... a biologist at New York Medical College, told NPR. "There have been ...

One way would be to use chimera embryos to create better animal models to study how human ... cell biology and anatomy at the New York Medical College. Sponsor Message The experiments are so ...

“When I was in college, my mother needed a heart transplant ... Lab-created interspecies chimeras are not especially new. Scientists at the ARC Institute of Animal Physiology announced their creation ...

The most cited potential application of such chimeras is organ growth. But this likely won't happen in mice but much larger animals such as pigs, he said. Of course, these applications raise ...

In scientific terms, a chimera is an animal with some DNA from another animal spliced into it. The chimeras you’re hearing so much about in the news are controversial because scientists are ...

Scientists in the U.S. could soon be allowed to create part-human, part-animal embryos in the laboratory, now that a nation-wide moratorium on chimera research is under official review.

The NIH put a moratorium on funding early-stage embryonic chimeras in September because of ethical concerns. Some bioethicists raised concerns that animals with human brain tissue might absorb ...