The Senate narrowly rejected an amendment geared toward criminalizing participation in research that created certain chimeras, or human-animal hybrids, in expectation that the federal government could ...

BATON ROUGE -- Legislation that would prohibit scientists in the state from creating human-animal hybrids for experimentation -- believed to be the first such ban proposed in the nation -- has been ...

For most of President George Bush's State of the Union address, we found ourselves lost in a torrent of economies, militaries and faith-based initiatives. While we heartily disagree with our commander ...

In biomedical research, the concept of chimeras represents a significant advancement that may transform our understanding of human biology. A chimera, defined as an organism with cells originating ...

BIOTECHNOLOGY is becoming dangerously close to raging out of control. Scientists are engaging in ever increasingly macabre experiments that threaten to mutate nature and the human condition at the ...

The creation of the United Kingdom’s first human-animal hybrid embryo may increase pressure for tougher regulation of the research, Bloomberg News reports. The Catholic Bishops Conference of England ...

Researchers in the United States and China announced in April that they had successfully injected human cells into a monkey embryo for the first time. These chimeras, organisms that have multiple sets ...