It is striking just how little we know about human development, especially given we are now decades into the modern era of biology. How is it possible that we understand exquisitely well how worms, ...

On Friday, watching pro-life Americans march for Life in our nation's capital, I was invigorated at the thought that our country has embarked on a new course, respectful of human life from the moment ...

Federal health officials said Thursday they are reconsidering a moratorium on the funding of research in which human tissues are transplanted into early, nonhuman embryos — creating organisms known as ...

Last October, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) declared a halt in the funding of research that involves creating certain types of human-animal chimeras. Ostensibly to help NIH staffers develop ...

Scientists may be a step closer to growing human organs in animals. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is considering lifting a moratorium that blocked funding for experimentation involving human ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. If you needed an organ transplant, would you mind if it had been grown in an animal from human stem cells? Or ...

Scientists at Stanford University are urging the Obama administration to lift a funding ban on a type of stem cell research that results in partly human creatures called "chimeras." The research could ...

In September 2015, the US National Institutes of Health placed a funding moratorium on research that involves introducing human pluripotent stem cells into animal embryos. To assess attitudes on human ...

Q: Does the National Institutes of Health fund research on human-animal chimeras, or organisms that are part-human, part-other animal? A: With some exceptions, the NIH doesn’t fund research on ...

In Greek mythology, the Chimera is a monster that is part lion, part goat and part snake. Far from reality, sure, but the idea of mixing and matching creatures is real — and has ethicists concerned.