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- What is a chimera? - New Scientist
A chimera is an individual whose body is composed of cells that are genetically distinct, as if they are from different individuals – and sometimes they really are from different individuals
- Could we merge biologically with the fungal network and live forever . . .
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?
Human-pig chimeras are being grown in the US The aim of the research, led by Pablo Ross at the University of California, Davis, is to grow organs for transplant The work has been under way for
- Human cells grown in monkey embryos raise ethical concerns
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
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
- Secrets of velvet ants venom explain what makes its sting so painful
A velvet ant sting is like “hot oil spilling over your hand” – now, scientists have identified molecules in its venom that let it deliver excruciating pain to a variety of other animals
- Exclusive: Two pigs engineered to have monkey cells born in China
In the chimeric piglets, multiple tissues – including in the heart, liver, spleen, lung and skin – partly consisted of monkey cells, but the proportion was low: between one in 1000 and one in
- Motor made from bacteria parts is one of the smallest ever built
A living motor made by combining different parts from bacteria is one of the smallest ever built, and could one day power tiny robots Many types of bacteria are propelled by natural motors that
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