The world's first pig-monkey chimeras have been born in China, scientists have announced. Researchers injected monkey stem cells into fertilized pig embryos then implanted them into sows and allowed ...

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If there's one thing sci-fi movies have taught us over the year it's that combining one animal with another animal almost always ends badly. Scientists in China aren't trying to create mutant monsters ...

Though they consulted bioethicists while completing their work, researchers have raised eyebrows by creating monkey-human chimeric embryos by injecting human stem cells into primate embryos. These ...

A few weeks ago, scientists reported successfully growing human cells in monkey embryos, paving the way for creating live human–monkey chimeras. For many, this could open the door to great medical ...

The term chimera is usually associated with Greek mythology. It brings to mind a monster with the head of a goat and a lion. Instead of a tail, it has a protruding snake. There is a genetic term that ...

For the first time ever, two pigs with monkey cells were born in China after researchers genetically modified cynomolgus monkey cells in culture. The resulting chimera monkey-pigs—which are new ...

An ethical debate has been sparked after the announcement that a Spanish and US research team has created the first human–monkey chimera, in a lab in China. But could this novel approach change the ...