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 animals have a mix ...
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 with fungal biology.
Human-pig chimeras are being grown – what will they let us do?
2016年6月6日 · Firstly, it’s far from clear that these chimeric fetuses would develop to term and then become healthy adults. Many of the rat-mouse chimeras created by Nakauchi’s team failed to survive, and ...
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 tissues – including in the ...
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 better relative efficiency than ...
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 body is derived in part from an ...
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 together, ...
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 created for the purpose ...
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.
mRNA vaccine technology has helped repair broken hearts in mice
2022年1月6日 · Conventional CAR T-cells are made by taking T-cells from a person’s body, genetically engineering them to add a gene for a “chimeric antigen receptor” – hence the name – and then ...