This Thursday, an exhibit called Chimera opened at Kettle Art in Deep Ellum for a run that ends June 23. The four contributing artists chose the title to connect the pieces in this show and guide ...

In reiterating this idea of the chimera (whose name is likely drawn from a volcano of that name) as a metaphor for a task or entity that lies beyond human conception, the Argentine writer Jorge ...

Human chimera work could also shed new light on serious human developmental problems, and even be used to manufacture donor organs---if chimeric embryos are allowed to develop into fetuses.

It comes from a decade-old art exhibition. The sculpture, called "Newborn," was included in a 2010 exhibit by Australian artist Patricia Piccinini. ... 2016, 3 Human Chimeras That Already Exist; ...

Thirty years ago Paul Simon immortalized one of the first animal-human transplants with the lyrics, “These are the days of miracle and wonder.… Medicine is magical and magical is art.

In Greek mythology, a chimera is a grotesque hybrid. ... Most recently, experiments by Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte and his team at the Salk Institute created a human-monkey chimera embryo.

As biotechnology advances, the day may soon come for the creation of a self-aware, human-nonhuman chimera. The USPTO has ruled on whether a patent may issue on such an organism, but Congress must ...

Human-Animal Chimera ... Research relies on state-of-the-art fusion technology, and these include stem cell biology andGenome editingIt seems to be a breakthrough in technology.

What’s new — Even though scientists have been studying and developing part-human chimeras since the 1970s, a problem that continues to plague this research is developing robust enough chimeric ...

These twin scenarios may sound extraordinary, but there are even more routine ways to gain a second set of DNA. When a woman is pregnant with just one child, either (or both) of them may become ...

To the ancients, a chimera was a fabulous monster with a lion's head, a serpent's tail and often an extra head in the middle of its back. To the botanist, it means a plant combining growths ...

A chimera is a hybrid of two species. In this case, scientists working on new possibilities for creating lab-grown organs for human transplants created early embryos that are half-human and half ...