What is a chimera? - New Scientist
The term chimera derives from the mythical beast called the Chimera, supposedly a lion with a snake for a tail and a goat’s head protruding from its back. A chimera is an individual whose body ...
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 ...
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.
The boy whose blood has no father - New Scientist
1995年10月7日 · The boy whose blood has no father. By Philip Cohen. 7 October 1995. IN THE closest thing to a human virgin birth that modern science has ever recorded, British geneticists last week described the ...
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 ...
Cloning - New Scientist
Cloning is the process of creating organisms that are genetically identical. These organisms are identical twins and are to some extent copies of each other. Many organisms can clone themselves ...
Seven unsolved medical mysteries - New Scientist
2008年12月16日 · Seven unsolved medical mysteries. In this week’s issue of New Scientist I edited a profile of a doctor who is the real-life version of TV’s House MD. William Gahl recently set up the ...
Highs and lows from 50 years of human-powered flight
2012年9月12日 · Highs and lows from 50 years of human-powered flight. 12 September 2012. In 1959, industrialist Henry Kremer stirred up interest in human-powered aircraft when he established a prize for the first ...