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Chimera – A Greek mythological creature with the head and front legs of a lion, the head and back legs of a goat, and the head of a snake for a tail. Said to be able to breathe fire from lion's mouth.

The term "chimera" has come to describe any mythical or fictional creature with parts taken from various animals, to describe anything composed of disparate parts or perceived as wildly imaginative, implausible, or dazzling.

Feb 3, 2017 · The concept of hybridity is an ancient one. Deriving from the Latin hybrida, it was first used to describe the offspring of a tame sow and wild boar, and was also used to describe Roman soldiers of mixed descent (Horace, Satires 1.7).

Jan 27, 2017 · Though the human stem cells didn't work inside the implanted pig embryos as well as the rat's did inside the mice, this is the first time a human-pig chimera has been successfully created in the lab, a large step toward the team's true end goal of figuring out how to grow organs in …

Jan 27, 2017 · Cells from a human have been combined with those of a pig for the first time to create a hybrid chimera. The work could eventually lead to the development of organs that can be grown in an animal...

Jan 26, 2017 · These human-pig “chimeras” were not allowed to develop past the fetal stage, but the experiment suggests such creations could eventually be used to grow fully human organs for transplant, easing...

Aug 7, 2017 · Early this year, seeking a way to grow human organs for transplant, his group announced it had created pig-human chimeras — fetal pigs with human cells mixed in.

Jan 27, 2017 · Yesterday, researchers published a paper in the journal Cell announcing that they had successfully produced the first human-pig chimera—an embryo that contains cells from two genetically distinct...

Jan 26, 2017 · Scientists hope the chimera embryos represent key steps toward life-saving lab-grown organs. In a remarkable—if likely controversial—feat, scientists announced today that they have created the...